'Alarming Increase' In Prevalence Of Chronic Low-Back Pain: UNC Study The proportion of people suffering from long term, impairing low back pain has more than doubled in North Carolina since the early 1990s, according to a new study. What's more, researchers believe the increase may be indicative of a similar trend across the country. In the study, published in the Feb. 9, 2009, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers from the Cecil G.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comTransdermal Drug Patches with Metallic Backings: Risk of Burns during MRI Scans Public Health Advisory issued describing risk of skin burns during MRI scans.
Source: www.fda.govColleague Single and Triple Channel Volumetric Infusion Pumps by Baxter Class 1 Recall issued because software and battery usage failures were identified that result in a delay in or interruption of infusion that may cause serious injury and/or death.
Source: www.fda.govLumbar Fusion Has Long-Term Benefits Lumbar fusion is becoming an increasingly common treatment for low-back pain, but its long-term effects are relatively unknown. A doctoral thesis from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet now shows that the long-term effects are superior to those of physiotherapy. Chronic low-back pain is treated increasingly often with lumbar fusion, by which several lower back vertebrae are fused in a way that has little impact on the back's overall mobility.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comLive Webcast Of A Minimally Invasive Lumbar Discectomy To Correct Severe Lower Back Pain Sergio Gonzalez-Arias, M.D., chief of neurological surgery and medical director of Baptist Hospital's Neuroscience Center, will perform a minimally invasive lumbar discectomy on Wednesday, January 28, at 4 p.m. The webcast will be moderated by Dr. Sean Kenniff, former healthcare reporter for WFOR-CBS Channel 4. Viewers can also choose to watch the procedure in Spanish.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWestern Washington University Chapter of National Student Speech Language Hearing Association Gearing Up for Benefit Auction The benefit auction on May 1 will raise funds for the re-opened Western Washington University Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, and feature an 'Under the Tuscan Sun' theme. (PRWeb Mar 12, 2009)
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Source: www.prweb.comMedtronic Announces Launch Of X-Stop® Peek IPD® System For U.S. Patients Suffering From Symptoms Of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), today announced the U.S. launch of the X-STOP PEEK IPD System, the first interspinous process decompression (IPD) device approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (
FDA) that offers a PEEK-Bone interface for treating the symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). LSS is the most common reason for back surgery in people over the age of 65 in the United States.
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