The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
Marrow Cellution: Playing Games with Bone Marrow Data in New Jersey
Since Regenexx has the largest dedicated interventional orthobiologics network that uses highly trained physician subspecialists, there isn’t a week that goes by that someone wants to take a potshot at the big guys. I ignore most of these, but every once in a while, I engage that provider in order to educate my readers. This…read more
Standing with Ukraine
I wake up every morning and probably like many people, I check the news to see if Ukraine is still standing. At night, when I wake up and try to get back to sleep, I’m thinking about how all of our military aide packages may just be too little too late. Every interview of every…read more
Did Lockdowns Work? Graphs that Will Astound You
Science as a discipline only works when we can learn from our mistakes and correct them. Hence, you can expect that now that the dust is beginning to clear from the Omicron wave of COVID that researchers will be reexamining all of our pandemic data and assumptions. As I have reported before, you can expect…read more
Are Our COVID Death Numbers Wildly Inflated?
This has been such a big week for COVID news so I felt obliged to give my readers an update. The big news is on the accuracy of the hospitalization number used to drive all of the models and a big surprise around death reports. Let’s dig in. The Hospitalization Debacle I’ve already blogged on…read more
COVID Death Rates vs. Car Crashes?
Yesterday I was reading comments by former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb that the pandemic was over. In that same news piece was an infographic on COVID death rates per 100,000. That caused me to look up car crash death rates by state using the same metrics and I wasn’t surprised by the comparison. What did…read more
New CDC Data on Omicron Says It All: 91% Less Lethal
OK, it’s finally time to officially stop the insanity with Omicron. We had data from South Africa that discussed that it was far less lethal and much more transmissible. The data to date has generally supported those facts. Now a CDC study makes it official. Let’s dive in. The New CDC Data The CDC and…read more
