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In an award-winning presentation at the annual meeting for the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, surgeons and researchers found that using leukocyte esterase reagent strips can be helpful in diagnosing periprosthetic joint injection quickly, according to an AAOS…

Texas Children's Hospital West Campus in Houston has expanded its outpatient services to include a sports medicine program specifically for children, according to a hospital news release.

Here are 10 orthopedic surgeons who recently performed surgery on professional athletes.

The number of professional baseball players with instances of abdominal muscle strains increased over the past two decades, according to a study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

ONC's Office of the Chief Privacy Officer, along with the HHS Office of Civil Rights, has initiated a Privacy & Security Mobile Device project, according to an ONC Health IT news release.

Here are eight statistics on ambulatory surgery center pain management net revenue based on total revenue from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011. The trend across the board is that both gross charges and net revenue per case increased as…

Although Bristol-Myers changed the label on its Kenalog steroid seven months ago to say that it's "not recommended" for injection into the epidural space near the spine, the steroid is still being used that way, according to a Bloomberg report.

The International Headache Society has released new recommendations for the conduct of acute and preventive migraine clinical trials, and the guidelines have been published in the IHS journal Cephalalgia.

While the U.S. works to convert the medical record system from paper to electronic, a transition to universal patient identifiers sparks debate over trust, privacy and control, according to a The Wall Street Journal report.

Jan. 3 marked the one-year anniversary of the start of registration for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs, according to a CMS news release.