Spine Fracturing Worse Right After Cement Repair
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NEW YORK  - A treatment to stabilize spinal  fractures, called kyphoplasty, may actually increase the risk  of additional fractures in the weeks following the procedure,  new research suggests.
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Scientists have developed a stengthened cement to be used in facial reconstructive surgery.
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To: Readers. From: Scribe. Re: Long-awaited news. (No, I wasn't fired; so put away that confetti). After, oh, somewhere around three months, 15 days, 21 hours and 17 minutes, I hereby proclaim that my torn hamstring has healed.
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Slumping in front of the television may damage key back muscles, say scientists.
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Scientists believe they are close to a significant breakthrough in the treatment of spinal injuries.
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Two big government-funded studies on back surgery for painful herniated disks show no clear-cut reason to choose an operation over other treatment. The pain and physical function of the patients, who were suffering from a condition called sciatica, improved significantly after two years whether or not they had surgery. However, neither strategy offered complete relief.
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Early tests are raising hopes that a new device can help people who've injured their spinal cord.
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Spinal disc fusion surgery to treat low-back pain is not very likely to be better than other, more conservative options such as physical therapy over the long term, most members of a panel of U.S. medical experts told Medicare officials on Thursday.
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Patients treated with widely used osteoporosis drugs may develop severe and sometimes disabling pain in muscles, joints and bones, U.S. officials said on Monday in an alert highlighting the previously known risk.
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Chronic back pain can shrink the gray matter in your brain by as much as 11 percent in one year, the same amount of brain density that&#39;s lost in 10 to 20 years of normal aging, says a Northwestern University study.
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Couch potatoes beware -- slumping for hours in front of the television or computer can cause severe lower back pain which may take months or years to cure.
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BOSTON  - Following an asthma flare-up,  children who are given inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) with a  nebulizer are less likely to be re-hospitalized or need to go  the ER than are their peers using steroids delivered by a  non-nebulizer device, a new study shows.
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Federal regulators will ask outside medical experts next week whether implanting an artificial spinal disc made by Medtronic is more effective than surgery at treating certain neck injuries.
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The 2002 NFL MVP has a broken vertebra in his neck that will sideline him at least eight weeks. The Oakland Raiders quarterback underwent an MRI on Monday morning and was taken for more tests.
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If a pregnant woman sustains a  fracture, perhaps from an auto accident or fall, the risk of  subsequent complications goes up markedly, researchers report.
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Maryland officials said yesterday that they are baffled about why a special type of concrete used on other bridge projects failed on a recently repaved section of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, a problem that could cost $7 million to fix and promises to delay traffic for months.
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SEATTLE - An expensive MRI machine at Virginia Mason Medical Center sustained at least $200,000 in damage when a metal floor buffer was mistakenly placed nearby and was sucked in by the machine's powerful magnets, a television station reports.  The accident happened Jan.