A 2-Year Study of Patients with early, aggressive disease demonstrates significantly superior results of Anti-TNF (tumor necrosis factor) plus DMARD (disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug) therapy over either therapy alone.
A chronic and potentially crippling inflammatory disorder, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) progressively wears away the cartilage and bone. Joint erosions are routinely seen wi…
Paget’s Disease of bone is a disease that causes affected bones to become enlarged and mis-shapen. Our bones are living tissue, and our bodies are constantly breaking down old bone and replacing it with new bone. In Paget’s disease, however, old bone is broken down and replaced at a faster rate than normal. The new bone is larger and weaker than normal bone.
Does Paget’s disease affect all t…
Spinal Fusion surgery is becoming more common in Australia prompting fellows of the Royals Australian College of Surgeons to voice their concern that it is set to become the new standard of care for chronic back pain. They are worried that patients who are not good surgery candidates are receiving the operation under misplaced belief that it is the best course of treatment. su…
Researchers report they have harnessed the unique physics of sea water as it freezes to guide the production of what could be a new generation of more biocompatible materials for artificial bone that may be suitable for replacement hips, knees and a variety of dental materials.
As published in the journal Science, the researchers used this novel technique to produce a thinly layered composit…
More Australians are participating in sport more often, according to new statistics released by the Australian Sports Commission today.
Almost 70% of the Australian population aged 15 years and over participated in exercise, recreation and sport at least once per week on average in 2005.
After allowing for natural increases in the population, this represents a 12% increase since the Exerc…
New Insights into Pain Mechanisms; Practical Advice on Pain Management.
Long treated as a side effect, pain is now widely
recognized as an integral part of patient care. While the last decade has brought extraordinary advances in the unraveling of pain mechanisms at the molecular level, evaluating and alleviating pain remains an ongoing challenge for physicians, particularly rheumatologis…
Many young women are unaware of the dangers of osteoporosis, leaving them vulnerable to crippling bone disease. These sobering findings were presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) in Denver.
Mark J. Kasper, Ed.D., FACSM was lead researcher for a survey of 302 college females enrolled in an elective physical activity course. While almost all (97…
Launching Australia’s updated Guidelines for Preventing Heat Illness in Sport, Minister for Ageing, Julie Bishop said today that vigorous and sustained exercise could place people at risk of heat illness – a risk that increases in hot weather.
Most people recover quickly from heat illness. But, if untreated, it can lead to heat stroke and even death.
“Medical advice suggests that you stop…
Research by scientists at King’s College London may pave the way for new treatments of spinal cord injuries. Spinal cord injuries typically arise from car accidents, violence, falls and sports injuries, with an average of two new cases admitted every day in the UK alone.
In research published in Nature* this week, scientists from the Centre for Neuroscience Research at King’s, show how an en…
A new analysis of nearly a dozen studies testing vitamin D in older individuals has concluded that it takes a daily dose of at least 800 international units (IU) to consistently prevent broken bones.
A dose that high was found to reduce the risk of hip fracture by 30 percent and other breaks by 14 percent. Lower doses didn’t have any effect.
The report, published in the New England Journa…
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