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March 01, 2006 Articles
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- ACIP recommends Tdap vaccine for health care workers
- AHA targets funding needs, heart disease in women
- Aldosteronism increases risk for metabolic syndrome, adverse events
- Allergy, dry eye have both shared and distinct mechanisms
- Anecortave acetate comparable to PDT in comparison trial
- Anti-VEGF therapy to emerge as the future in treatment of AMD
- Arthroscopic double-row rotator cuff repair designed to enhance healing
- At Issue: Pegged implants vs. unpegged implants
- At Issue: To surface or not resurface?
- Better long-term results with THR than internal fixation in elderly patients
- Billing and coding issues related to presbyopia-correcting IOLs
- Bone and Joint Decade enters second half
- Calcium plus vitamin D offered only modest improvement of bone mineral density
- Canadian health care wait times highest for orthopaedic surgery procedures
- Cartilage repair methods advance now yield up to 90% improvement
- Chandelier illumination and bimanual vitrectomy used to remove dislocated IOL
- Coffee consumption not linked to hypertension in women
- Committee seeks understanding of keratectasia
- Committee seeks understanding of post-LASIK keratectasia
- Comparing graft options for ACL: Which offers the most benefits today?
- Congress avoids pay-for-performance mandates
- Consider location, compensation and independence when negotiating contracts
- Conventional IOL presbyopia correction: six steps to success
- Customized aberration correction could be next step in IOL design
- Dry eye treatment shows promise
- Em Debate: A prevenção de infecção na cirurgia de catarata
- En Discusión: Prevención de infecciones en cirugía de catarata
- Ensure truthful advertising in your practice
- Er: YAG laser treatment for presbyopia introduced at ESCRS Winter meeting
- ESIN recommended for pediatric radial neck fractures
- Esquema quimioterápico de duas drogas associado com tratamento focal: Efetivo para o tratamento do retinoblastoma
- Ethics and disclosure rules: Regulating human behavior?
- EU tissue and cell directive to be implemented in April
- Evaluating the malpractice, payer mix and OR situation in the region
- Evidence-based marketing: Find what patients, referring doctors want
- FDA approves rituximab plus CHOP for first-line treatment of diffuse large B-cell NHL
- FDA sets conditions for rimonabant approval
- Federal health care initiative aims to expand health savings accounts
- Femoral arthroplasty yields good results in patients with prosthetic disease
- Full slate of meetings around the world to be covered by OSN
- Gainsharing and other surgeon/hospital partnering: What’s legal, what’s not?
- Geoffrey Walker teaches ‘real’ orthopaedics on trips to Ethiopia, Laos
- Growth hormone therapy for Prader-Willi syndrome can worsen sleep problems
- HA coating generally unnecessary in primary total hip replacement
- Heart disease risk in women: Risk profile, diagnosis, symptoms are different than in men
- High-flexion knees — too much flex or just right — it depends on the patient
- La quimioterapia con dos agentes combinada con tratamiento focal: Efectiva en retinoblastoma
- La supervivencia de la ampolla debe ser el primer propósito, según una especialista
- Leading osteoporosis experts debate the key distal radius fracture issues
- Link seen between corneal elasticity and glaucomatous damage
- Low molecular weight heparin reduces risk of HIT after surgery
- Low-fat diets did not reduce risk of colorectal or breast cancer, CVD in postmenopausal women
- Low-fat diets may not reduce risk of breast, colorectal cancers or CVD for older women
- LpPLA2 may be reliable predictor of CAD in women
- Malpractice insurers accused of inflating loss projections to justify higher premiums
- Mandatory flu shots boost health care worker immunization rate at Virginia Mason
- Manutenção da bolha filtrante é o objetivo principal, afirma cirurgiã de glaucoma
- Mini-incision surgery: Patients want it, but is it safe?
- Modified frontalis muscle flap advancement can correct pediatric blepharoptosis
- More complete bone ingrowth and less pain with HA-coated stems
- More squinting means less blinking
- Nanotechnology, gene therapy, implants are the future of ocular disease treatment
- New cardiovascular imaging: the who, what, when and why
- New detection technologies important in management of AMD
- New oral agents appear effective for preventing VTE in orthopedic surgery patients
- Night driving vision: A major challenge in presbyopia correction
- NMP22 test helps detect most recurring bladder cancers
- No difference between serum and serum-free cultivation for ACT
- Nomogram developed to assess exercise-related mortality risk
- Observation, slit-lamp exam enable diagnosis of benign eyelid myokymia
- Off-label drug use draws interest at Macula 2006
- Osteochondral allograft implants work
- Participation in ‘heavy’ sports shown to increase risk of disc degeneration
- Pathologic hip fractures with signs of metastatic disease pose challenges
- Peer-review: what does it mean?
- Periodontal disease can begin early in diabetes
- Phase 3 data from ANCHOR trial favor Lucentis
- Physician education a prominent theme at the World Ophthalmology Congress
- Physicians must educate patients about obesity
- Progressive-addition lenses cater to active lifestyles
- Ranolazine approved for angina treatment
- Regulation would allow Canadian opticians to refract, upgrade prescription lenses
- Researchers analyze femtosecond laser bubble morphology
- Rimonabant found beneficial for CVD risk reduction
- Safety profile of gatifloxacin questioned; labeling changes made
- Scanning laser treatment locates reading vision in corneal periphery
- States increasingly requiring cultural competency courses to improve patient care
- Success of phase-2 trials not accurate predictor of phase-3 trial outcome
- Sunitinib improves time-to-progression and survival in GIST after imatinib failure
- Surgeons revisit original cartilage repair techniques
- Symposium: Dynamic Stabilization of the Lumbar Spine
- Symposium: Treatment Options for Ocular Allergies
- Tamoxifen use reduces breast cancer risk
- Temporary haptic externalization helps control IOL repositioning procedure
- Topography-guided retreatment achieves good results with latest software advances
- Treating AMD a major focus for retinal surgeons
- Up to 63% reduction in oxygenation of femoral head during M/M resurfacing
- Washington Update
- What’s in a name?
- WISE data show need for new diagnostic methods in women