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<乌鸦传媒>IV Nutrition: Few Proven Benefits for Growing Trend Among Athletes

Sports medicine researchers concerned about high vitamin levels in the blood of pro players

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<乌鸦传媒>Trial Backs Steroid Shots for Stubborn Achilles Tendon Pain

Corticosteroid bests placebo when combined with resistance exercise therapy

<乌鸦传媒>Doctor Sued Over Stem Cell Treatments

Clinic made almost $750K from treatments with no evidence behind them

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<乌鸦传媒>Medicare Claws Back Money for Dubious Birth-Tissue Stem Cell Shots

Government seeks to recoup more than 2 years of payments for unproven treatments

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<乌鸦传媒>Doc Fired After Standing Up to Private Equity; RFK Jr.'s Anti-Vax Machine

This past week in healthcare investigations

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<乌鸦传媒>Are Young Female Athletes Taking More Hits to the Head?

Sports-related head injuries in teens estimated to have tripled over past two decades

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<乌鸦传媒>Simone Biles Is Sending a Message: Olympians Are People First

Mental health is essential to sporting success

<乌鸦传媒>Inside Olympic Precautions: Three Team Doctors Dish

Physicians satisfied with strong safety measures during controversial Tokyo games

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<乌鸦传媒>ADHD Linked to Kids' Traumatic Brain Injury Severity

But overall, children with ADHD were more likely to experience TBI

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<乌鸦传媒>First Close Look at Presumed Myocarditis Cases After COVID Vaccination

Case reports suggest a favorable clinical course after hospitalization

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<乌鸦传媒>Physician Organizations Challenge PA Name Change

The AMA and AOA release statements against the rebrand

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<乌鸦传媒>Guns for Vaccinations; IU Health Joins the Mandate Club; NFL Ends 'Race-Norming'

A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine

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<乌鸦传媒>Op-Ed: Let the Olympic Games Be Canceled

Amid continued crisis, now is not the time for celebrating athletic achievement

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<乌鸦传媒>Op-Ed: Let's Prevent Post-Shutdown Sports Injuries in our Kids

Quarantine to competition carries heightened injury risk

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<乌鸦传媒>Banned Stimulants Again Found in Supplements

Researchers question FDA's commitment to enforcement

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<乌鸦传媒>Criteria Proposed to Diagnose Clinical Syndrome Tied to CTE

Traumatic encephalopathy syndrome definition applies to research, not clinical care

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<乌鸦传媒>Testicular Dysfunction May Persist Long After Anabolic Steroid Use

"Need to treat not just as problem of testosterone deficiency but as a body-image disorder"

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<乌鸦传媒>Device to Prevent Athletes' Brain Injury Wins FDA Nod

Low-tech neck collar keeps brain from "sloshing" during moderate impacts

Bridge-EnhancedACL Repair (BEAR) Implant over a computer rendering of the implant above FDA APPROVED

<乌鸦传媒>FDA OK's First-Ever Synthetic Implant for ACL Tears

Bioresorbable device fills gap between torn ligament ends

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<乌鸦传媒>Bone Marrow Improves Healing With ACL Grafts

MRI confirms better outcomes than with allograft alone in randomized study

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<乌鸦传媒>These Forbes 400 Billionaires Made Their Fortunes in Healthcare

14 individuals, $66 billion in combined net worth

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<乌鸦传媒>Post-COVID Heart Scans Without Symptoms: Not a Good Idea

Multidisciplinary group urges against general population screening

Youths play American football

<乌鸦传媒>Tackle Football in Childhood: Does Age Matter?

Early exposure may not be linked to short-term concussion recovery

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<乌鸦传媒>Why These Athletes Went Ahead With Their Elective Surgeries

Sports medicine physicians weigh in on special treatment

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<乌鸦传媒>From Fraud to Ghana Presidency? Another Sports Doc Abuse Scandal

Bad Practice: A weekly roundup of clinicians accused, convicted, or under investigation

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<乌鸦传媒>Brain Injury After Concussion May Linger

Some effects persist a year after college athletes return to play

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<乌鸦传媒>Joint Injections: Are They Worth the Risk?

Adverse outcomes hastening joint replacement have raised concerns

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<乌鸦传媒>The Afterlife of Afterbirth

Placenta donations may be feeding stem-cell scams

<乌鸦传媒>Suppressed Testicular Function 'Mostly Reversible' After Steroid Abuse

But process can take upwards of 9 months

<乌鸦传媒>Elbow Injuries Up in Youth Baseball. Are Coaches to Blame?

Many admit "lack of desire" to count pitches as recommended

<乌鸦传媒>Concussions in Sports: Don't Neglect Rugby

Most playing for more than a few years suffer head trauma, and few get adequate treatment

<乌鸦传媒>Robotic Knee Surgery: Fewer Problems, More Expensive

Balancing benefits and costs now the challenge for physicians, patients and payers

<乌鸦传媒>Doing Shoulder Surgery in Denver (or La Paz)? Read This

40-fold (!) increase in 30-day pulmonary embolism risk with procedures performed at high altitude

<乌鸦传媒>'Not a Haircut': Two Knees, Same Day ... More Risk?

Evidence, experience mixed on simultaneous bilateral knee replacement

<乌鸦传媒>Athletes and Hearts; Best Meds for ADHD: It's PodMed Double T!

This week's topics include secondhand smoke and adolescents, labor induction, screening young athletes for cardiac problems, and ADHD medicines.

<乌鸦传媒>Lewy Body Disease Tied to Contact Sports

More than 8 years of play linked to Lewy bodies, parkinsonism

<乌鸦传媒>NBA Players: Nearly 1 in 6 Has Abnormal ECG

Study raises questions of whether yet more specific criteria are needed

<乌鸦传媒>From Hopeless to Healer: Persecuted in Nigeria, Stonewalled by the NFL

Early struggles prepared Bennet Omalu for character assassination in the U.S.

<乌鸦传媒>CTE Risk in Football Players Exaggerated? (Health News Review)

Media reports have run past the science

<乌鸦传媒>Handling Patients and Performance Enhancers

Even without evidence-based steroid treatment protocol

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