Opening Day for Major League Baseball has arrived! Hopefully your favorite team can stay healthy and challenge for a postseason birth this season. Medical science can’t help your cleanup batter hit a curveball, but it may soon help your best pitcher avoid an injury. According to Dr. Glenn Fleisig, a biomedical engineer at the American […]
False Positive Mammogram Linked in Increased Breast Cancer Risk
New findings published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention suggest that women who receive a false positive mammogram or biopsy have an increased risk of developing breast cancer over the next 10 years. For their study, researchers examined more than two million mammograms nationwide from women between the age of 40 and 74. After looking […]
What is Gout?
As we alluded to last week, gout is something to be mindful of this holiday season. Christmas cookies and alcohol can all contribute to the development of gout, but what exactly is gout? Today, we take a closer look at the stages of gout and why it occurs. Gout Development and Causes Gout is a […]
Foot Traffic in the OR Could Increase Infection Risk
A covert study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University revealed that as foot traffic in and out of an operating room increases, so too does a patient’s infection risk. The study, published in the most recent issue of Orthopedics, analyzed foot traffic in and out of operating rooms for the sake of patient safety. The […]
Predicting Infection Likelihood After Open Ankle Fracture
A retrospective review of more than 1,000 patients who suffered an open ankle fracture revealed which factors made a person more likely to suffer a surgical site infection. For the study, researchers reviewed the medical records of 1,003 skeltally mature patients who underwent surgery for an open ankle fracture. They defined an infection as a […]
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