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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . LAS VEGAS — Use of beta blockers after fracture was associated with an increase in the incidence of nonunion, ...

While the healthcare system is under increasing financial burden, many healthcare institutions implement cost control strategies. Screening tibia shaft fracture patients for nonunion risks and ...

Using our cohort of patients, we were able to independently evaluate the validity of a previous prognostic index. This index used three variables (open fracture, presence of a fracture gap ...

Dr. Robert Zura, the Robert D'Ambrosia Professor and Head of Orthopaedic Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, was part of a research team that identified risk factors which may help ...

Researchers have identified risk factors which may help orthopaedic surgeons better predict a serious complication of bone fractures. Fracture nonunion may be increasing as more patients survive ...

They found that opioid medications as a class significantly increased the risk of fracture nonunion following both acute and chronic administration. "Chronic opioid use roughly doubled the risk of ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 18, 2007 -- Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASTM), a leading regenerative medicine company, today announced final results from a U.S. Phase I/II clinical trial designed to ...

Not only may opioid use increase the risk of bone fractures, but opioids may also impair healing. The authors of a new study also question their effectiveness in controlling pain. Dr. Robert Zura, ...