Orthopedics - Biotech, Pharma and Life Science Channel
Orthopedics is the science or practice of correcting deformities caused by disease or damage to the bones and joints of the skeleton. This specialized branch of surgery may involve operation, manipulation, traction or prostheses. (Oxford Medical Dictionary).
Aside from fixing broken bones, Orthopedics also cover the care of congenital skeletal abnormalities, such as Perthes Disease, wear and tear of bones, which as joint replacements in arthritis patients and other diseases affecting the bones, such as Pagets Disease.
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Trice Orthopedics, Inc. wins PACT’s Enterprise award for Life Sciences Startup Company
Trice Orthopedics™, Inc., captured The Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT) Enterprise Award for Life Sciences Startup Company at the PACT Awards ba...
Cerapedics, Inc. announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Glen A. Kashuba as the company’s new chief executive officer, effective June 1, 2013....
ConforMIS Appoints Senior Vice President, Operations
Matthew Scott takes leadership on scaling operations to meet growing demand for ConforMIS’ patient-specific technology ConforMIS, Inc., a privately held medical devic...
Finest Total Knee Replacement in Thailand at Vejthani Hospital
Vejthani Hospital offers the greatest quality of life improvement and provides total solution for knee problem at Vejthani TJR Center. With our specialized surgeons fully equipped...
Drug combination offers hope for osteoporosis
“Double drug hope for brittle bone sufferers”, reports the Daily Mail. This headline follows a small but well-designed trial of treatments for postmenopausal osteoporosis. As women go through the...
FDA approves new drug for advanced prostate cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Xofigo (radium Ra 223 dichloride) to treat men with symptomatic late-stage (metastatic) castration-resistant prostate cancer that has spread to bon...
Bones and Joints hits newsstands today in The Washington Post
NEW YORK, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- At one point or another, bone and joint health affects nearly every American and too often people are needlessly suffering in silence. Their lack of...
Trice Orthopedics, Inc. announces President
Trice Orthopedics™, Inc., a privately held company, has raised $3.0 million in startup capital and announced the appointment of Richard H. Washburn as its President....
BINOSTO® (alendronate sodium) Featured on Two National Programs
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- About half of all women over age 50 and 1 in 4 men will break a bone due to osteoporosis. Yet the disease, which causes bones to become fragi...
Magnesium 'important for bone density in young children'
Magnesium may be as important as calcium for children's bone health, a study has found.Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, US, enrolled 63 healthy children, aged four to eight ye...
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Companies
Trice is pioneering Needle Based Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies for Orthopedics. The companyâs Micro Vision Solutions enable definitive and convenient surgical-grade...
Vitera Healthcare Solutions, formerly Sage Healthcare, provides end-to-end clinical and financial technology solutions to more than 400,000 healthcare professionals including 80,0...
Based in Gainesville, Fla., Exactech develops and markets orthopaedic implant devices, related surgical instruments and biologic materials and services to hospitals and physicians...
FzioMed develops, manufactures and commercializes synthetic, absorbable biomaterials. Our products are based on an innovative polymer technology called Oxiplex®. The properties of Oxiplex make it an...
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Also nationally ranked are MD Anderson specialty services, including ear, nose and throat (#5); gynecology (#6) and urology (#23). Other specialties, which earned âHig...
St. Joseph Hospital and St. Joseph Health System
Founded in 1929, St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, California is a nationally recognized, 525-bed, not-for-profit Catholic hospital dedicated to extending the healing ministry of the...
Established by Marc R. Viscogliosi, John J. Viscogliosi and Anthony G. Viscogliosi in New York City in 1999, Viscogliosi Bros., LLC (VB) was the first merchant banking and venture...
Founded in 1997 by chiropractor Dr. Robert Lewin, 1-800-411-Pain now includes 47 clinics in Florida, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Georgia. The clinics offer a wide rang...
Amp Orthopedics develops innovative, non-invasive products for the treatment of post-operative pain and edema in orthopedic indications. These products use an FDA approved and CE...
Vilex has over 15 years of industry experience as a manufacturer of cannulated bone screws, small joint resurfacing implants, memory staples, plates, subtalar implants, external r...
Clinical Trials
Pamidronate to Treat Osteogenesis Imperfecta in Children
This study will evaluate the effect of pamidronate-a drug that decreases bone resorption (breakdown)-on osteogenesis imperfecta. This is a genetic disorder of collagen, the major protein...
Treatment with growth hormone (GH; a hormone made by the body that stimulates growth) has been shown to be helpful in treating children with chronic kidney disease who fail to grow. The a...
Stromal Therapy of Osteodysplasia After Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation
Osteodysplasia or poorly formed bones, "brittle bones" is a genetic disease with no known proven treatments. Some forms of osteodysplasia may cause severe disability and even death. Eligi...
Research studies have shown that children who are long-term survivors of childhood leukemia may be at greater risk for early bone loss called osteoporosis. This bone loss may lead to a gre...
Bone Status and Insulin Resistance in Hirsutism
The purpose of this study is to investigate how the bones of hirsute women are different from bones of healthy women. The change in hormone content in the blood will also be investigated....
Defining the Optimal Hormonal Replacement Therapy in Turner Syndrome
The purpose of this study is to examine whether a larger dosage of estrogen than the one used today will secure the development of a normal sized uterus and increase the strength of the bo...
Biological Markers in Parkinson's Disease
This study will identify abnormalities of a protein called alpha synuclein that is found in the brain of patients with Parkinson's disease and related disorders to see if it can serve as a...
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cisplatin, doxorubicin, and methotrexate, work in different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining pam...
Health Beliefs and Health Behaviors Among Minorities With Rheumatic Diseases
This study will explore the diverse health beliefs and behaviors among minority patients with rheumatic diseases. These diseases may cause joint pain, stiffness or swelling. Some can inv...
Anakinra to Treat Patients With Neonatal Onset Multisystem Inflammatory Disease
This study will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of anakinra (Kineret(Registered Trademark)) for treating patients with neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID), also k...
PubMed Articles
Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) were seeded in a three-dimensional scaffold of silk fibroin (SF) and chitosan (CS) to repair cartilage defects in the rabbit knee. Totally 54 rabbits...
It is reported that the coracoclavicular (CC) ligaments arise at a constant region, which is proportional to the size of the clavicle and the coracoid process. However, all cadavers in those studies w...
The vertebrae of prematurely aging mice as a skeletal model of involutional osteoporosis.
Oxidative stress in bone increases with age, which leads to bone frailty and a high fracture risk. Animal models show early changes in trabecular structure occur in age-related osteopenia. These model...
Biomechanical parameters of the BP-enriched bone cement.
Bisphosphonates (BPs) are well-known substances with very efficient antiresorptive properties. Their beneficial actions are useful not only in achieving better bone mineral density but also in improvi...
The aim of this study was to provide data on various dimensions of the normal cochlea using three-dimensional reconstruction based on high-resolution micro-CT images. The petrous parts of 39 temporal...
An Integrated System for 3D Hip Joint Reconstruction from 2D X-rays: A Preliminary Validation Study.
The acquisition of conventional X-ray radiographs remains the standard imaging procedure for the diagnosis of hip-related problems. However, recent studies demonstrated the benefit of using three-dime...
Expression and significance of VEGF and p53 in rat degenerated intervertebral disc tissues.
To discuss the expression and significance of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and p53 expression in rat degenerated intervertebral disc (IVD) tissues.
Expression of NF-κB and osteopontin of synovial fluid of patients with knee osteoarthritis.
To explore the significance of osteopontin and nuclear factorκB (NF-κB) expression in patients with knee osteoarthritis.
Manual strangulation: Experimental approach to the genesis of hyoid bone fractures.
Discovery of a fracture of the hyoid bone during forensic autopsy is a feature that raises suspicions of constriction of the neck. Studies have shown the influence of gender and build of the individua...
The potential of forensic analysis on human bones found in riverine environment.
Human remains found in aquatic contexts are frequently recovered incomplete and badly decomposed, and therefore present a challenge for medico-legal institutes as their possibilities of analysis for i...
Videos
Healing Young Bones and Joints: Orthopedics & Sports Medicine at Seattle Children's
The Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Department at Seattle Childrens addresses the special needs of growing bones, joints and connective tissue in children an...
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Cranial Fossa, Middle
The compartment containing the anterior extremities and half the inferior surface of the temporal lobes (TEMPORAL LOBE) of the cerebral hemispheres. Lying posterior and inferior to the anterior cranial fossa (CRANIAL FOSSA, ANTERIOR), it is formed by part of the TEMPORAL BONE and SPHENOID BONE. It is separated from the posterior cranial fossa (CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR) by crests formed by the superior borders of the petrous parts of the temporal bones.
Metatarsalgia
Pain in the region of the METATARSUS. It can include pain in the METATARSAL BONES; METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT; and/or intermetatarsal joints (TARSAL JOINTS).
Musculoskeletal Development
The morphologic and physiological changes of the MUSCLES, bones (BONE AND BONES), and CARTILAGE of the body, i.e., MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM, during the prenatal and postnatal stages of development.
Hand Bones
The CARPAL BONES; METACARPAL BONES; and FINGER PHALANGES. In each hand there are eight carpal bones, five metacarpal bones, and 14 phalanges.
Toe Phalanges
Bones that make up the SKELETON of the TOES, consisting of two for the great toe, and three for each of the other toes.
