In Spinal Device Research, Questions on Conflicts
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The testing of the Prodisc, an artificial spinal disk, provides a stark example of conflicts of interest.
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Debate about whether an artificial knee implant designed specifically for women has scientific merit continues a year after the device was launched, even as the orthopedics manufacturer racks up better-than-expected sales.
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A team of US researchers has shown that controlling devices with the brain is a step closer. Four people, two of them partly paralysed wheelchair users, successfully moved a computer cursor while wearing a cap with 64 electrodes.
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The most exhaustive studies yet published on drug-coated stents show that the widely used heart devices are no better at preventing heart attacks and death than the older, cheaper devices they replaced, and in some cases may be slightly worse.
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NEW YORK  - For people with lower back  pain, a set of five criteria seem to predict whether spinal  manipulation is likely to help them, according to a new study.
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NEW YORK  - Early tests are raising hopes  that a new device can help people who've injured their spinal  cord.
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Trying to avoid vertigo, falls and other hazards of lost equilibrium.
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For people with disabilities, motorized wheelchairs can be a great way to improve mobility, especially if the government will pick up most of the tab for the pricey machines, as Medicare does. But reports of fraud in 2003 led to a crackdown by the    Centers for Medicare and Medicaid     Services  that has some manufacturers, suppliers and beneficiaries complaining the changes went too far.
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SALT LAKE CITY - Learning whether or not one method of surgery works better than another for patients with chondrosarcoma, a cancer of the cartilage, is the goal of a new clinical study opening this week at multiple sites around the US and Canada, with
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FRIDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Just-released data from a trial that was stopped early in 2004 for safety reasons is re-igniting debate on the safety of two popular painkillers.
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Johnson & Johnson and other makers of  new artificial spine discs face an uphill battle as they spar  with health insurers unsure of the devices' benefits, company  officials said.
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New studies shed some light on these controversial heart treatments, but many questions remain. What patients need to know.
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Spinal disc fusion surgery to treat  low-back pain is not very likely to be better than other, more  conservative options such as physical therapy over the long  term, most members of a panel of U.S. medical experts told  Medicare officials on Thursday.
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Patients with degenerative disc disease in their spines may have an alternative to getting their vertebrae fused, which alleviates pain but limits motion.
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Legal wrangling over competing hard drive technologies continues.
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Research on embryonic stem cells continues to ignite national debate over the beginning of human life. And with the Legislature likely to take up the issue in its next session, many worry that inaccurate information is being perpetuated by stem cell proponents and their counterparts.
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Federal advisers heard conflicting data today about the safety of new drug-oozing stents used to keep clogged arteries open as the experts struggled to advise government regulators about whether the risks of the devices outweigh their benefits for millions of patients.