Pain treatment lacking for a third of cancer patients, study says
Houston Chronicle
4/20/2012
April 20--Nearly two decades after federal guidelines called for more aggressive treatment of pain associated with cancer, millions of Americans with the disease still suffer unnecessarily because ...
Smoking Associated with Hip and Knee Replacement Failure
NewsRx.com
4/19/2012
Tobacco and nicotine use are known to impair the body's ability to heal bones and wounds. Two new studies presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons looked...