Foot Blog News this Week- Issue 3
Men Should Watch Their Step — Consequences Of The Failure To Treat Osteoporosis
Medical News Today: Article Date: 26 Jan 2007 – 22:00 PST-Leading study author, Dr Jackie Center says: “While women are initially twice as likely as men to have a fracture, once the first break occurs, the risk of a second substantially increases and the protective effects of being male disappear altogether.”
Former President Bill Clinton Speaks At Novo Nordisk Forum On Urgent Need Of Worldwide Change In Diabetes Care
Medical News Today: Article Date: 27 Jan 2007 – 0:00 PST-
Former President Bill Clinton will be the keynote speaker at the Global Changing Diabetes Leadership Forum, taking place on March 13, 2007 in New York City hosted by Novo Nordisk and supported by the International Diabetes Federation.
Empi Announces FDA Clearance Of Select(TM) TENS Device
Medical News Today: Article Date: 30 Jan 2007 – 0:00 PST-Empi, a global market leader in non-invasive, non-systemic pain management and physical rehabilitation for more than 30 years, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted clearance to market the Empi Select(TM) TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) device.
Recommendations For Diagnosis And Management Of Venous Thromboembolism
Medical News Today: Article Date: 31 Jan 2007 – 11:00 PST-The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and American College of Physicians (ACP) has released new clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of venous thromboembolism (VTE).
Dietary Zinc For Diabetes Prevention Not Backed By Evidence
Medical News Today: Article Date: 27 Jan 2007 – 0:00 PST-Despite laboratory evidence that zinc helps promote the production and action of insulin and widespread marketing of zinc supplements for this purpose no randomized clinical trials show that zinc supplementation prevents the onset of type 2 diabetes.
New Approach Could Lower Antibiotic Requirements By 50 Times
Medical News Today: Article Date: 31 Jan 2007 – 1:00 PST-Antibiotic doses could be reduced by up to 50 times using a new approach based on bacteriophages. Steven Hagens, previously at the University of Vienna, told Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the SCI, that certain bacteriophages, a type of virus that infects bacteria, can boost the effectiveness of antibiotics gentamicin, gramacidin or tetracycline.
Exercise neither hurts nor helps knees
UPI- BOSTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) — In older adults, many of whom are overweight, U.S. researchers found that exercise neither protects against nor increases the risk of knee osteoarthritis. David T. Felson of the Boston University School of Medicine and colleagues conducted a study of 1,279 subjects and questioned them about recent physical activity they had engaged in on a regular basis as well as knee symptoms such as pain, aching or stiffness. This could have implications for foot and ankle arthritis.
Predicting the risk of rheumatoid arthritis
UPI: LEIDEN, Netherlands, Jan. 30 (UPI) — Dutch researchers developed a formula to help determine whether patients with undifferentiated arthritis are likely to progress to rheumatoid arthritis.Starting with clinical data for more than 1,700 arthritis patients, Leiden University Medical Center researchers identified 570 patients with recent-onset UA and monitored their disease for one year. At the culmination of follow-up, 177 of the original UA patients fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for RA and 150 had achieved remission; the remaining 94 had been diagnosed with another rheumatologic disease.
UK Still Has Long Way To Go In War On Killer Hospital Bugs
Medical News Today: Article Date: 30 Jan 2007 – 6:00 PST-There is mixed good and bad news in figures for the UK released today, for while the MRSA superbug rates are falling slowly, the rate of the potentially fatal hospital bug Clostridium Difficile is still rising.
Overweight kids have greater risk of foot problems
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Kids who carry excess pounds may be doing permanent damage to their feet, a group of foot and ankle surgeons warns. “When there is an increased amount of weight and stress being placed on the foot, that can cause some significant changes in foot structure,” Dr. Darryl Haycock, a foot and ankle surgeon in private practice in Lima, Ohio, told Reuters Health.
CQ’s Carey Discusses President Bush’s Health Care Coverage Expansion Proposal, Entitlement Program Commission, SCHIP Program Funding
Medical News Today: Article Date: 31 Jan 2007 – 6:00 PST -Mary Agnes Carey, associate editor of CQ HealthBeat, examines President Bush’s proposal to expand health care coverage, legislation introduced that would establish a permanent entitlement commission and SCHIP program funding in this week’s “Health on the Hill from kaisernetwork.org and CQ.” According to Carey, Bush in his State of the Union address announced a proposal that would give tax deductions of $7,500 to individuals and $15,000 to families who purchase health insurance. The deductions would be extended to all Americans no matter if they purchase private health insurance or receive it through an employer.
MEPs And International Diabetes Organisations Call For Better And Equal Care In Children With Diabetes Around Europe
Medical News Today: Article Date: 31 Jan 2007 – 11:00 PST-The EU and its Member States are under increasing pressure to grant access to better and equal care to all children with diabetes in Europe. The first call to action to improve diabetes management in European children has been issued today by Members of the Parliament (MEPs) in Brussels with the support the International Society of Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Europe and with the participation of members of the EU Commission. “Every country suffers from limited state-funded access to modern treatments, adequate glucose monitoring and accessible locations of care,” stated Tony O’Sullivan, President of IDF Europe, “but more significantly, we are failing to pay attention to the social and psychological consequences for the individual and the family, particularly parents of children with diabetes who live with fear and unaddressed concern.”
