A release from the Institute of Medicine describes a major report on the future of pain management, recommending that generalists should handle most pain patients while pain specialists limit themselves to the most complex ones.
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Michael Chmell, MD, a knee surgeon with Rockford Orthopedic Associates, has been appointed to serve a three-year term on the College of Engineering Advisory Council at the University of Notre Dame, according to a Rockford Register Star news report.
Here are 10 orthopedic surgeons who performed 12 surgeries on Major League Baseball players so far this season.
Omitted information was the most common error within computerized prescribing systems, according to a study in the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association.
Robert Watkins, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon in Los Angeles, recently performed a cervical spine procedure on San Francisco 49ers center Eric Heitmann, according to a team news report.
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The American College of Sports Medicine released new guidelines on the recommended quality and quantity of exercise for adults, according to an organization news release.
Josh Blomgren, MD, an internal sports medicine physician at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago, will serve as head physician to rapper Snoop Dogg's Snoop Dogg Youth Football League, according to an All Hip Hop News report.
People actively engaged in social media and patient-specific websites are 60 percent more likely than the general population to participate in a clinical trial, according to a recent survey.
A new study from St. Jude Medical found that peripheral nerve stimulation of the occipital nerve significantly reduced the number of headache days per month in patients with chronic migraine.
A study, reported at the 15th Congress of the International Headache Society in Berlin, of Autonomic Technologies' implantable neurostimulation system for the treatment of cluster headache reported positive preliminary findings.