More than 200,000 Medicare patients with back pain underwent $2 billion worth of unnecessary surgeries, including spinal fusion and/or laminectomy or vertebroplasty, over a recent 3-year period, ...

Kenneth Wayne Price was a campus safety supervisor at Tamalpais High School in October 2023 when he was badly injured trying ...

The high-quality studies showed that thermal RFA of the DRG is not effective in the treatment of chronic lumbar radicular pain. The trial results provided inconclusive evidence of the efficacy of ...

New Hampshire and Arkansas were found to have the highest rates of unnecessary spinal fusions and/or laminectomies and vertebroplasties, respectively, according ...

Spinal fusion and laminectomy procedures were deemed overused for patients with low back pain, excluding those with radicular symptoms, trauma, herniated disc, discitis, spondylosis, myelopathy, ...

radicular pain or scoliosis. Vertebroplasty "overuse" was defined in patients who had fractures caused by osteoporosis, with some exclusions. 4. States with the highest overuse of spinal fusions ...

After a research note raised potential safety concerns with Amgen's lead obesity candidate, the company defended its drug and ...

If you experience stomach pain first thing in the day, you're probably wondering why your stomach hurts when you wake up. Like most abdominal pain, morning stomach pain typically resolves without ...

Is there a scarcity of suitable donor lungs for patients in need of lung transplantation? Although lung transplantation is becoming more common worldwide, the number of procedures performed is not ...