Procedures News

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 PPIs Cost-Effective for Elderly Taking NSAIDs, VA Study Shows
Routine use of PPIs would be cost-effective for elderly NSAID users...

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 Acupuncture Cuts Postop Pain, Opioid Use
Acupuncture should be considered an option for postop pain control among patients after orthopaedic surgery...

Thursday, October 11, 2007 IL-1ra Gene Therapy Stops Intervertebral Disc Degradation, Explant Study Shows
An in vitro study shows that IL-1 receptor antagonist delivered either directly or by gene therapy can inhibit matrix degradation in human intervertebral disc...

Wednesday, October 03, 2007 Media Miss Point of Acupuncture Back Pain Study

Superficial needling at nonacupuncture points is as good as true acupuncture for relieving chronic low back pain and both are better than conventional therapy, raising the possibility that a "superplacebo effect" accounts for the benefits associated with acupuncture in previous studies...

Wednesday, October 03, 2007 First Case Reported of Lupus Erythematosus Tumidus Induced by Sex Reassignment Surgery
Environmental triggers contribute to lupus pathogenesis, and the hormone regimens used in male-to-female sex reassignment can induce lupus-like symptoms...

Monday, September 17, 2007 Anesiva Initiates New Phase II Trial of Adleaâ„¢ for Pain Relief Following Total Knee Arthroplasty
Anesiva, Inc, a publicly-held, late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel therapeutic treatments for pain management, announced that it has initiated a new phase II study of Adleaâ„¢, a long-acting, nonopiate TRPV1 agonist, for the relief of postoperative pain in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA)...

Friday, September 14, 2007 Autoantibodies Associated With Lupus Can Be Removed by Plasmapheresis
Antibodies against the VRT101 laminin epitope correlate with SLE disease activity and can be removed by extracorporeal immunoadsorption...Amital H, et al. Rheumatology. 2007; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kem181 [Epub ahead of print].

Monday, September 10, 2007 Jury Out on Whether Surgical Repair of ACL Tears Staves Off OA

Little convincing evidence supports surgical repair of the anterior cruciate ligament or meniscus as a way of preventing OA, but the problem may lie in the way the studies have been done, not in the surgery…Lohmander LS, et al. Am J Sports Med. 2007 Aug 29; doi: 10.1177/0363546507307396 [Epub ahead of print].

Friday, September 07, 2007 Archus Orthopedics Completes World's First Lumbosacral Facet Joint Replacement 
Archus Orthopedics, Inc, a privately-held company developing reconstructive implants to treat a variety of spine disorders resulting from degenerative changes in the facet joints, announced that it has successfully completed in Europe the first human implants of its new TFAS-LS^â„¢ system, representing the first ever facet joint replacement procedures performed at the lumbosacral spinal (LS) level...

Thursday, August 30, 2007 Medtronic Receives FDA Approval for First Artificial Disc for Use in the Cervical Spine in the US
Medtronic, Inc,  announced that it has received US FDA approval to market the PRESTIGE® Cervical Disc, the first artificial disc commercially available in the US for use in cervical disc arthroplasty or cervical artificial disc replacement...