Woman Awarded $8M for Jaw Damage Related to Osteoporosis Drug

The FDA says this side effect is rare and the benefits outweigh the risks.
The majority of people take bone density drugs for the lesser bone density
loss called osteopenia and even though the drugs increase bone mass, they do
not decrease the fracture rate. This is thought to occur because the bone
they help build is a lower quality weaker type of bone.

Woman Awarded $8M for Jaw Damage Related to Osteoporosis Drug

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Diet Soft Drinks Deplete Urinary Calcium

A new study funded by the Walter Reed Department of Clinical Investigation has found that consumption of diet soft drinks causes significantly more excretion of calcium and phosphorus than drinking water over the two-day study period. This was a small study but it sheds some light on the causative factors for previous cross-sectional studies that have shown a relationship between decreased bone mass and consumption of cola beverages. This effect is probably more significant in people who drink diet colas as they have been shown to consume more of the beverage than people who drink sugar colas.

Diet Soft Drinks Deplete Urinary Calcium

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Surgery for Back Pain Often Fails

Here is an article from AOL Health talking about the low success rate of many types
of back surgery. I and recent studies in the medical literature would take issue with the
statement that 90% of cases heal of their own within weeks, but the rest
of the article is fairly accurate.

Surgery for Back Pain Often Fails

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Biggest radiation threat is due to medical scans

Luckily the media has recently been publishing many articles explaining the huge increase in medical radiation that Americans have been experiencing over the last two decades. Unfortunately much of this radiation is from unnecessary tests and procedures being performed for various non-evidence based reasons. Here is a recent article.

Biggest radiation threat is due to medical scans

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Health Myths That May Surprise You

I have been interested in myths in general and medical myths for quite some time. It may surprise many that medical myths are still quite prevalent among the medial profession. I read about them and hear about them from my patients all the time. This book “Don’t Swallow Your Gum! Myths, Half-Truths and Outright Lies About Your Body and Health,” by Dr. Aaron E. Carroll and Dr. Rachel C. Vreeman examines many of these medical myths. One that strikes home for me and one they discuss in this block is the myth that knuckle cracking causes arthritis. The reality is that knuckle-crackers are no more likely to have arthritis than those who don’t make annoying popping sounds with their fingers.

11 Health Myths That May Surprise You

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FDA: FDA Some heartburn meds pose long-term fracture risk

It has been known for some time that by decreasing the acidity of the stomach, antacids can decrease the absorption of calcium and other minerals. This warning stems from a recent review of studies by the FDA.

FDA Some heartburn meds pose long-term fracture risk

Overtreated: More medical care isn't always better

This is a very unfortunate problem in our country and many other developed nations that leads to much dangerous tests, treatments, and surguries. I agree with the article that the worse area of this is probably with back conditions.

Overtreated: More medical care isn't always better

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Does Massage Help After Exercise?

It had previously been thought that massage aided muscle recovery by increasing blood flow and decreasing lactic acid in the muscles. There have more recently been several studies that have shown that massage does not increase blood flow, but actually decreases blood flow to muscles.
A new study in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise measured both blood flow and lactic acid levels after exercise of the forearm muscles and found massage massage decreased the blood flow and increased the lactic acid levels as compared to rest and active recovery.

As noted in the study this does not prove that massage is harmful, just that two proposed mechanisms to recovery do not occur. There very well may be physical and/or psychological mechanism that are beneficial. This will hopefully lead to more studies that can find
if there are physical mechanisms that occur during massage that aid in exercise recovery.

Massage impairs postexercise muscle blood flow and "lactic acid" removal.

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