The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
Do Healthy People Who Are Overweight Have Increased Risk of Heart Disease?
If you’re otherwise healthy, is just being overweight a health risk? That’s what a team of researchers recently set out to discover. That’s because studies have bounced back and forth on this issue for a while. What they found may surprise some of the patients I talk to every day. Coronary Heart Disease Coronary heart…read more
You Too Can Be Replaced by an Adding Machine…
Long ago when I was a kid and my dad was aggravated, he’d sometimes tell us in jest, “You can be replaced by an adding machine!” What he was referring to was the fact that he had witnessed a dramatic transformation from his time in engineering school using slide rules to his, at the time, rare…read more Will Big Pharma Get to Drop Its Side Effect Warnings from TV Ads?
You’ve likely heard the side effect warnings in direct-to-consumer drug ads. They’re read quickly at 2X speed like something out of the Chipmunks movies. They need to be there to warn us, but we rarely pay attention to them until they happen to us. Now big pharma is lobbying to kill even that small bit…read more Website Bling vs. Clinical Reality… NSI Stem Cell
This past weekend my wife and I went to see a movie, and the above ad was in the lobby. It took us a second, but as soon as we recognized the message as a “bull in a china shop,” we both knew that this was a blog post in the making. This morning I’d…read more Is Cancer’s Big Sugar Addiction a Cause or an Effect?
There’s been quite a bit of attention lately on the negative health effects of sugar. I tend to personally focus more on weight gain and problems that come with it, but there’s another dimension to our sugar-filled American diet that’s even worse. Increased cancer rates have also been tied to excessive sugar consumption. So which…read more The Top Orthopedic/MSK Stem Cell Conferences
I recently came across a list of the top 10 stem cell conferences online. I was a bit surprised, as the list wasn’t put together by a physician expert in the space, so I thought it a good idea to create another list that’s more factual and more focused on orthopedic, pain management, and sports…read more 