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Arthroscopies performed within a year of Knee replacements

So within one year of getting a knee replacement many patients received an arthroscopy.  Follow the money. Arthroscopy. 2013 Nov 27. pii: S0749-8063(13)00973-0. doi: 10.1016/j.arthro.2013.09.002....

Stockholm ISAMS Poster

This is, more or less, the final poster. No real breakthroughs, not yet, but part of the effort. Sparrow_SB_0926_R2_0U-proof

Why Runners Don’t Get Knee Osteoarthritis

  Maybe okay after all? In a turn around from a decade ago, the science has changed and concluded that if people have normal knees...

Why Runners Don’t Get Knee Osteoarthritis

  Maybe okay after all? In a turn around from a decade ago, the science has changed and concluded that if people have normal knees...

Follow the Money: Acne Medicines

  Meeting with another Sales Rep? No thanks. When the American Academy of Pediatrics endorsed guidelines recommending expensive prescription drugs to treat childhood acne, it...

Biological Sensitivity and Stress Reactivity

  Destress with Acupuncture This whole approach and way of looking at stress and reactivity may, or may not have pertinence to the study I’m...

Autonomic and adrenocortical reactivity and buccal cell telomere length in kindergarten children

This study like the previous one looks at intrinsic reactivity to stress and the physiological sequelae. Psychosom Med. 2011 Sep;73(7):533-40. Autonomic and adrenocortical reactivity and...

Animal Acupuncture in the News

  Doesn’t hurt a bit! This article discusses how acupuncture helps pets to walk again. Sweet! I also like to point out that there is...

500 Plus Posts for My Blog

  Ancient Medicine Made Modern I have officially published 503 posts on my blog since my first post in 2006. That is all.

HRV and Whole-brain functional connectivity

A post that I’m putting out as part of an ongoing project. Neuroimage. 2013 Mar;68:93-104. doi:  Association between heart rate variability and fluctuations in resting-state...