The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that South African athlete Fanie Lombaard has been suspended for 1 year and fined following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation, according to a press release. Lombaard returned an adverse analytical finding for Probenecid in…
Day: April 20, 2011
Brian Weinshenker Receives 2011 John Dystel Prize for MS Research
Brian G. Weinshenker Professor Brian G. Weinshenker, MD, has been chosen by a committee of his peers to receive the National MS Society/American Academy of Neurology’s 2011 John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research. Weinshenker from the…
Long-Term Study Shows No Major Adjacent Degeneration in Most Patients After Fusion for Scoliosis
Young patients who undergo spinal fusion for scoliosis are likely to be doing well 10 years after surgery, according to study results published online in Spine. The findings contrast beliefs that the surgery would cause damage to the spine just…