On the HCPLive osteoarthritis page, resources on the topics of medical news and expert insight into OA can be found. Content includes articles, interviews, videos, podcasts, and breaking news on degenerative joint disease, and more.
May 2nd 2024
At 6 months, patients treated with ReNu exhibited significant reductions in assessed knee pain and maintained patient function compared with controls.
February 18th 2024
Two Extra Minutes for Medication Safety?
As the population ages and medicine continues to advance, people are living longer and healthier; but they are also taking more medications for more medical conditions. Those medications can cause drug-drug interactions that lead to adverse drug reactions (ADR). Studies have shown that the majority of medication errors happen at the stage of prescription.
Are Osteoporotic Fractures Preventable in Spondyloarthritis?
August 10th 2015Up to one-third of people with active ankylosing spondylitis (AS) have some degree of bone loss due to systemic inflammation and decreased mobility, but lowering inflammation with tumor necrosis factor blockers may improve bone density.
Understanding the Relationship between Chronic Pain and Obesity
Both chronic pain conditions and obesity are major and increasing public health concerns, and the connections between the two have been firmly established in the medical literature. But as the prevalence of obesity worldwide continues to grow, a deeper understanding of this connection could potentially benefit both practitioners and patients.
New Drug Deemed Effective for Opioid-Induced Constipation
July 1st 2015With 259 million painkiller prescriptions written in 2012 alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one of the most common side effects experienced by patients being treated for chronic pain is opioid-induced constipation (OIC).
For Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis…Treat the Brain?
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) sufferers experience more than just pain and changes to their cartilage, bone, ligaments, and muscles in the surrounding area. They also often experience changes in the sensory and motor function of the knee.
What a Clinical Research Review Tells Us-and What It Doesn't-About Knee Osteoarthritis Progression
Spend any appreciable time on PubMed, Medline, or Embase, and you can begin to think that there aren't many untapped areas of clinical exploration. Nothing could be further from the truth, of course, and a recent clinical review in Arthritis Research and Therapy outlines some of the uncharted territory even in a condition as prevalent as osteoarthritis of the knee.
Study: Arthritis Cure Research Is Biased
Plasma-rich platelet injection, an arthritis therapy, is thought to induce regeneration of damaged cartilage. A Netherlands team looked at existing studies and was not convinced that there is credible proof the therapy works. The studies all had a high-to-moderate risk of bias, they found.
More Studies Validate HA Shots for Knee OA
May 5th 2015(OARSI2015) A new systematic review found intra-articular hyaluronic acid mildly effective for knee osteoarthritis pain, despite significant weaknesses and risks of bias in the trials. Another study using a large database found that the injections delay knee replacement.