Balance classes are a fixture at senior centers. The trials behind them show a real but modest return. A review for the US Preventive Services Task Force, published in JAMA, pooled 37 randomized trials covering 16,117 adults 65 and older.… Read More →
Weekly injections of the weight-loss drug semaglutide took an average of 41.7 points off knee pain on a 100-point scale over 68 weeks. Placebo managed 27.5 points. The trial randomized 407 adults who had obesity and moderate knee osteoarthritis, the… Read More →
Two infusions of zoledronate, given five years apart, brought 44% fewer new spine fractures over a decade in women aged 50 to 60. Fractures of any kind occurred in 24.7% of the women who received both infusions and 35.3% of… Read More →
Knee osteoarthritis is the wear-and-tear joint condition in which the cartilage cushioning the knee gradually thins, leaving the joint sore and stiff. There is no cure, and movement is the mainstay of easing it, which usually means a class, equipment… Read More →
Most people who hurt their lower back will hurt it again, and the question a randomized trial in Australia set out to answer was whether anything reliably delays the next episode. Among 701 adults who had just recovered from one,… Read More →
