Meeting Highlights
Miami, March 27, 2009
Maui, January 14-17, 2009
San Francisco, October 24-29, 2008
Paris, June 11-14, 2008
Chicago, April 10, 2008
San Francisco, March 5-9, 2008
Procedures News
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Anti-Nausea Drug Eases Bone Marrow Transplants
Aprepitant, taken in combination with other anti-nausea drugs, can significantly ease the experience of a bone marrow transplant, which generally causes severe nausea and vomiting...
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Minimally Invasive Hip Replacements Growing in Popularity
Orthopedic surgeons have developed techniques to make hip replacement operations less invasive, cutting down the length of time patients spend in the hospital and speeding up total recovery time...
Monday, October 19, 2009
Experts Call for Early Intervention with Hip Scopes
As presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Hip Arthroscopy, earlier intervention is better when it comes to joint-sparing hip operations...
Friday, October 16, 2009
EMG Finds “High Risk” Zone for ACL Tears in Female Athletes
Reduced semitendinosus (ST) and elevated vastus lateralis (VL) activity increase the risk of ACL tear—and taking bits from the ST for ACL repair is probably a mistake...
Thursday, October 15, 2009
To Scope or Not to Scope in Hip Patients Over 60
Hip arthroscopy may benefit some patients aged 60 and older with femoroacetebular impingement...
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Second Knee Surgery Common Among Young Patients
Young people who have surgery to repair a damaged ACL will likely need additional surgery in the future...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
First RCTs Cast Doubt on Vertebroplasty Gains
The first 2 randomized, placebo-controlled trials of vertebroplasty for osteoporotic fractures show no significant benefits for the procedure...
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Mimicking Human Cartilage to Repair a Knee
Companies are developing off-the-shelf plugs that are engineered to mimic the composition of human bone and cartilage to use instead of transplanted cartilage when repairing injured knees...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
So You Think You Can Dance After Hip Replacement? You Can!
Orthopaedic surgeons are realizing that patients are never too young or too old to undergo total hip arthroplasty...
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Tubular Diskectomy Patients Don't Recover Faster
Recovery from minimally invasive tubular diskectomy for sciatica is no quicker than from conventional microdiskectomy...







