Year: 2009

After a bitterly cold and snowy winter, many look forward to the warmer, breezy, sunny days of this new season. With the arrival of spring also comes the dreaded itchy eyes, scratchy ears and throat and sneezing, all symptoms of…

A multidisciplinary approach to patient care will turn O&P practitioners and other allied health professionals from competitors to comrades.

Despite current and forthcoming economic challenges, the Obama Administration takes action to advance health care.

Additional focus on the socket could provide amputees with better mobility and confidence.

Growth in national health expenditures (NHE) in the United States is expected to significantly outpace economic growth in 2008 and 2009 due to the recession, according to a report issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The…

One in seven American adolescents is vitamin D deficient, according to a new study by researchers in the department of public health at Weill Cornell Medical College. The findings are published in Pediatrics. In children, vitamin D deficiency can interfere…

Online social networking connects businesses with the buyers.

For athletes, particularly school-aged athletes, the choice between months on crutches and a season on the sidelines, versus taking 10 minutes to do a short, simple, structured warm up, should be clear. The choice appears to be even clearer for…

Jerry Cook, CPed, listens to customers and is sympathetic to their needs.

Facts about osteoporosis are staggering. Seventy-five million baby boomers are approaching the age where the disease is tightening its grip on their bones. Osteoporosis also contributes to an estimated 1.5 million bone fractures in the United States annually. According to…