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Patients happier when docs discuss treatment side effects: study
Results from a new study suggest that hospital patients who suffer a side effect from treatment are more likely to give high ratings to their care when hospital staff are forthcoming with information about what went wrong with the treatment. Read Summary > -
Scientists seek to re-grow spinal discs
According to new research, there's a new option on the horizon for people who suffer from chronic back pain, re-growing healthy discs in the spine--without surgery. Read Summary > -
Depressed pain patients more likely to get opioids: study
According to a new study, chronic pain patients who suffer from depression are more likely to be prescribed narcotic painkillers such as morphine and codeine. Read Summary > -
Clinical trial: Add-on treatment for osteoarthritis pain
Call for adults ages 40 years to 80 years old who have osteoarthritis to participate in a study. Read Summary > -
FDA accepts application for new OA drug
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted a French drugmaker's new drug application for its experimental osteoarthritis drug naproxcinod. Read Summary > -
Healing Scar Tissue: Hope for Spinal Cord Injuries
Researchers have developed a new enzyme to break down dense scar tissue that builds up on the spinal cord after central nervous system damage. Read More > -
Sleep Apnea Therapy Improves Golf Game
Sleep apnea sufferers may have some more motivation to wear their breathing machines at night ? it could improve their golf game. Read More > -
Saving Younger Knees
Most people take about 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day. In the average lifetime, that's 115,000 miles. Most cars wear out by then -- so why shouldn't your knees? More than 400,000 people will need knee replacements this year, but before Gen Xers go for the total trade-in, there's a new option that will keep younger knees in place -- longer. Read More >
