IV Nutrition: Few Proven Benefits for Growing Trend Among Athletes Sports medicine researchers concerned about high vitamin levels in the blood of pro players Aug 16, 2022
Trial Backs Steroid Shots for Stubborn Achilles Tendon Pain Corticosteroid bests placebo when combined with resistance exercise therapy Jul 11, 2022
Doctor Sued Over Stem Cell Treatments Clinic made almost $750K from treatments with no evidence behind them Mar 17, 2022
Medicare Claws Back Money for Dubious Birth-Tissue Stem Cell Shots Government seeks to recoup more than 2 years of payments for unproven treatments Mar 16, 2022
Doc Fired After Standing Up to Private Equity; RFK Jr.'s Anti-Vax Machine This past week in healthcare investigations Dec 22, 2021
Are Young Female Athletes Taking More Hits to the Head? Sports-related head injuries in teens estimated to have tripled over past two decades Sep 07, 2021
Simone Biles Is Sending a Message: Olympians Are People First Mental health is essential to sporting success Jul 29, 2021
Inside Olympic Precautions: Three Team Doctors Dish Physicians satisfied with strong safety measures during controversial Tokyo games Jul 28, 2021
ADHD Linked to Kids' Traumatic Brain Injury Severity But overall, children with ADHD were more likely to experience TBI Jul 12, 2021
First Close Look at Presumed Myocarditis Cases After COVID Vaccination Case reports suggest a favorable clinical course after hospitalization Jun 17, 2021
Physician Organizations Challenge PA Name Change The AMA and AOA release statements against the rebrand Jun 09, 2021
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 Jun 03, 2021
Op-Ed: Let the Olympic Games Be Canceled Amid continued crisis, now is not the time for celebrating athletic achievement May 20, 2021
Op-Ed: Let's Prevent Post-Shutdown Sports Injuries in our Kids Quarantine to competition carries heightened injury risk Apr 13, 2021
Banned Stimulants Again Found in Supplements Researchers question FDA's commitment to enforcement Mar 23, 2021
Criteria Proposed to Diagnose Clinical Syndrome Tied to CTE Traumatic encephalopathy syndrome definition applies to research, not clinical care Mar 15, 2021
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" Mar 09, 2021
Device to Prevent Athletes' Brain Injury Wins FDA Nod Low-tech neck collar keeps brain from "sloshing" during moderate impacts Feb 26, 2021
FDA OK's First-Ever Synthetic Implant for ACL Tears Bioresorbable device fills gap between torn ligament ends Dec 16, 2020
Bone Marrow Improves Healing With ACL Grafts MRI confirms better outcomes than with allograft alone in randomized study Dec 04, 2020
These Forbes 400 Billionaires Made Their Fortunes in Healthcare 14 individuals, $66 billion in combined net worth Sep 24, 2020
Post-COVID Heart Scans Without Symptoms: Not a Good Idea Multidisciplinary group urges against general population screening Sep 15, 2020
Tackle Football in Childhood: Does Age Matter? Early exposure may not be linked to short-term concussion recovery Sep 09, 2020
Why These Athletes Went Ahead With Their Elective Surgeries Sports medicine physicians weigh in on special treatment Apr 22, 2020
From Fraud to Ghana Presidency? Another Sports Doc Abuse Scandal Bad Practice: A weekly roundup of clinicians accused, convicted, or under investigation Feb 21, 2020
Brain Injury After Concussion May Linger Some effects persist a year after college athletes return to play Oct 16, 2019
Joint Injections: Are They Worth the Risk? Adverse outcomes hastening joint replacement have raised concerns Oct 15, 2019
Suppressed Testicular Function 'Mostly Reversible' After Steroid Abuse But process can take upwards of 9 months Mar 26, 2019
Elbow Injuries Up in Youth Baseball. Are Coaches to Blame? Many admit "lack of desire" to count pitches as recommended Mar 19, 2019
Concussions in Sports: Don't Neglect Rugby Most playing for more than a few years suffer head trauma, and few get adequate treatment Mar 18, 2019
Robotic Knee Surgery: Fewer Problems, More Expensive Balancing benefits and costs now the challenge for physicians, patients and payers Mar 16, 2019
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 Mar 15, 2019
'Not a Haircut': Two Knees, Same Day ... More Risk? Evidence, experience mixed on simultaneous bilateral knee replacement Feb 14, 2019
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. Aug 11, 2018 podcast
Lewy Body Disease Tied to Contact Sports More than 8 years of play linked to Lewy bodies, parkinsonism Jul 27, 2018
NBA Players: Nearly 1 in 6 Has Abnormal ECG Study raises questions of whether yet more specific criteria are needed Dec 07, 2017
From Hopeless to Healer: Persecuted in Nigeria, Stonewalled by the NFL Early struggles prepared Bennet Omalu for character assassination in the U.S. Sep 20, 2017 video
CTE Risk in Football Players Exaggerated? (Health News Review) Media reports have run past the science Jul 28, 2017
Handling Patients and Performance Enhancers Even without evidence-based steroid treatment protocol May 25, 2017
