Month: September 2010

The Amputee Coalition of America (ACA) recognizes Ohio Willow Wood as a Bronze Sponsor for 2010. The Bronze Sponsorship represents a financial commitment of $10,000 to the ACA for its programs and activities. “Once again, we thank Ohio Willow Wood…

    Gina Vittetoe St. Petersburg Limb & Brace announced that Gina Vittetoe, CP, has joined the practice as a staff prosthetist-orthotist and is now accepting new patients. Prior to joining St. Petersburg Limb & Brace, Vittetoe was a staff…

The Board of Certification/Accreditation, International (BOC), recently launched its new website. The update was a 9-month project, completed in collaboration with NSI Partners. According to a press release, the project began with an analysis of what features would be most…

About half of women who require radiation therapy after they have had a mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction develop complications that necessitate a return to the operating room, but pre- or post-mastectomy chemotherapy does not appear to be associated with…

Gaurav Mishra has joined Otto Bock HealthCare as vice president of sales and will lead global sales initiatives at Otto Bock headquarters in Duderstadt, Germany.     Gaurav Mishra Mishra holds a master’s degree in business studies from the University…

A diabetes self-management education program delivered by community health workers may be effective in improving the blood sugar levels and behavioral skills among Hispanics/Latinos with type 2 diabetes, according to a recent University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) study. “Community…

The risk factors for indoor and outdoor falls for older adults are different, according to a new study by the Institute for Aging Research of Hebrew SeniorLife, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. “Indoor and outdoor falls are both important,”…

A new study shows that white men and boys are living longer with muscular dystrophy due to technological advances in recent years, but that the lives of African-American men and boys with muscular dystrophy have not been extended at the…

In a press conference following the incident Thursday, Baltimore police and Johns Hopkins officials have confirmed that a man has shot a surgeon at the facility and that the shooter subsequently turned the gun on himself and his mother, a…

Researchers in the UK have developed a new model to describe the current and future burden of postmenopausal osteoporosis in different national settings. The findings, published in Osteoporosis International on behalf of the International Osteoporosis Foundation’s committee of scientific advisors,…