June 30, 2025

Can Typos Change a Diagnosis?

Large language models used in clinical decision-making may offer different treatment recommendations depending on how a patient writes their message—even when the medical facts remain unchanged.

Conexiant

June 25, 2025

Top Physical Therapies for Knee OA

A large-scale analysis of physical therapies for knee osteoarthritis found knee bracing, hydrotherapy, and exercise to be the most effective options for reducing pain and improving function.

Conexiant

June 23, 2025

Teen ACL Injuries Linked to High Reinjury Risk

A long-term study of adolescent athletes who underwent ACL reconstruction found high rates of reinjury and other knee damage but also noted that most returned to sports and reported improved knee function over time.

Conexiant

June 12, 2025

Circulating miR-126-3p Linked to Knee OA

Plasma levels of miR-126-3p are elevated in radiographic knee osteoarthritis and may attenuate disease severity by reducing angiogenesis.

Conexiant

June 10, 2025

New Guidelines Challenge BMI Thresholds for Knee Surgery

ACR/AAHKS guideline conditionally recommends against delaying total knee arthroplasty based solely on BMI, prompting debate among orthopedic specialists.

Conexiant

June 06, 2025

Shifting Views Linked to Fewer Joint Surgeries, Study 

A Swedish study found that patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis who became unwilling to have joint replacement after a 3-month education and exercise program were significantly less likely to undergo surgery over the next several years.

Conexiant

June 06, 2025

New Global Criteria Define Pediatric Bone Disease

An international team developed and validated the first global classification criteria for pediatric chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis, offering a standardized tool to improve research and diagnosis.

Conexiant

May 28, 2025

Kennedy Proposes NIH Publishing Ban

"We're probably going to stop publishing in The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and those other journals because they're all corrupt."

Conexiant

February 13, 2025

How Some Sports Injuries Can Cause Arthritis at an Early Age

Your high school soccer career ended with a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and knee surgery. Now, 20 years later, you’re experiencing increasing pain in that same knee and the doctor diagnoses the problem as post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA).

Cedars-Sinai Pulse