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- 9/5/2011
Low revision rate found for ACL reconstruction
Study based on Ontario Health Insurance Plan data also shows 14- to 19-year-olds most likely to need revision - 9/5/2011
Apixaban may be a safer anti-platelet therapy than existing options
The investigative oral Factor Xa inhibitor apixaban could prevent strokes among atrial fibrillation patients better than current treatments—and may be able to perform that task without a risk of excessive bleeding. - 9/5/2011
Azathioprine eyed for liver toxicity risk in rheumatoid arthritis patients
Hospitalization for acute hepatotoxicity among rheumatoid arthritis patients appears to be related to previous liver disease as well as treatment with the immunosuppressant azathioprine, Canadian researchers reported here. - 9/5/2011
Ortho surgery is noisy business
Red Deer surgeon finds OR tools as noisy as those in his woodworking shop - 9/5/2011
Adding rituximab to other biologics may be safe in rheumatoid arthritis
In an open-label study to investigate the safety of combining biologic agents in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, researchers found little serious risk when rituximab (Rituxan) was added to other drugs. - 9/5/2011
New OMA work-stress program off to busy start
Dr. Michael Kaufmann, director of the Ontario Medical Association’s Physician Health Program (PHP), says that by 2008—over a decade after the PHP was created to deal with physicians’ mental health and addiction issues—he became so overwhelmed with requests, “I simply had to say I couldn’t do this anymore without help.” - 9/5/2011
Rotavirus vaccines have risk of bowel obstruction
International experts call for global immunization-—with monitoring