Rheumatology

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Total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) is preferred over hemiarthroplasty in the treatment of patients who have glenohumeral osteoarthritis (GHOA) in the strongest of 16 recommendations in a new evidence-based clinical practice guideline developed by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). The AAOS guideline is designed to help physicians improve treatment of patients with shoulder pain by applying the best current evidence in making clinical decisions about GHOA.

Although the use of this medicine to manage pain has been common practice for many years, this form and concentration of morphine was not FDA-approved until now.

A Montgomery County, Alabama jury awards the multi-million dollar settlement over a mistakenly filled prescription for rheumatoid arthritis which confined Reva Tosh to a wheelchair with Cushing's Syndrome.

Last week, the non-profit, consumer advocacy group known as Public Citizen filed a petition to the FDA on the removal of Savella, a selective serotonin and norepinephrine dual reuptake inhibitor used to treat fibromyalgia, from the market.

The risk of sustaining a contralateral anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is greater than the risk of sustaining a first-time ACL injury, according to investigators in the department of orthopedics at Lund University and Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden. The most important risk factor for sustaining a contralateral ACL injury is return to a high activity level after a unilateral ACL injury.

Paul McMaster, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières surgeon, describes what he and his team have seen and done since they arrived in Port-au-Prince to bring emergency medical care to earthquake survivors on January 15.

HCPLive blogger Jill Taylor takes a look at some of the stories developing in Haiti and how healthcare providers are responding to the earthquake and subsequent aftershock.

A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières cargo plane carrying 12 tons of medical equipment, including drugs, surgical supplies and two dialysis machines, was turned away three times from Port-au-Prince airport since Sunday night despite repeated assurances of its ability to land there.

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A lot of amputees and the paralyzed will need lifelong care.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières teams in Port-au-Prince are still under great pressure.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières staff work 24 hours a day to treat as many patients injured in the January 12 earthquake as possible, but the needs are huge and there are delays in receiving crucial supplies.

Here is a list of donations given by celebrities to assist in the relief effort of the earthquake that hit Haiti.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières urges that its cargo planes carrying essential medical and surgical material be allowed to land in Port-au-Prince in order to treat thousands of wounded waiting for vital surgical operations.

Isabelle Jeanson, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières emergency communications officer, has been with the MSF teams in Port-au-Prince since January 15. Here she describes the situation as of January 17.

Here are some general facts about last week's earthquake in Haiti and the aid that has been given by other countries around the world.

Healthcare professionals looking to donate time or money to disaster relief efforts in Haiti will find information on how to do so through these ten organizations.

Acetaminophen is often recommended instead of aspirin as a day-to-day pain reliever, but taken in too high a dose, it can damage the liver and perhaps cause liver failure.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières have been working together to treat as many of the people who were injured after the 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday afternoon.

Patients already have enough to worry about without now having to worry about this.

These past months, we have been discussing reality - we are not doing well compared to other systems of care; we cannot afford to continue what we are doing--it's a veritable shell game.

The FDA approved Actemra (tocilizumab) on Friday to treat adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis who have not adequately responded to or cannot tolerate other approved drug classes for rheumatoid arthritis.

The 2010 Consumer Electronics Show recently concluded in Las Vegas; but aside from everything transforming into 3D, there were some other advances and introductions in the world of tech gadgets that are worth mentioning.

Osteoporosis is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The fracture risk assessment tool (FRAX) calculates the contribution of significant clinical risk factors and bone mineral density to estimate the 10-year risk of major osteoporotic fracture and hip fracture.

A serious underlying condition rarely is present in patients with low back pain (LBP), but the pain can be intense and severely limit home and work activities. For most patients with LBP, the cause is a nonspecific mechanical process; for those with acute symptoms, the course is self-limited. Initial treatments include activity modification, nonnarcotic analgesic agents, and patient education. For patients whose symptoms are not improving, referral for physical treatments is appropriate.

"The current health care reform proposal is just a beginning," says Norman Makous, MD. "This legislation addresses health coverage reform. The problem that has not been touched in the current legislation relates to how we provide medical services.

Obesity poses a significant public health challenge that increases the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus, heart disease, hypertension, stroke, some cancers, osteoarthritis, and other conditions, according to the NIH. Therefore, the organization is leading a new obesity prevention initiative that will use findings from basic research on human behavior to develop more effective interventions to combat the problem.

First identified in cancer patients in the 1970s, breakthrough pain is also a clinical challenge in other pain modalities, including neuropathy and back pain. With new information and more effective treatments now available, physicians are changing the way they approach this puzzle.