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A new survey finds that homeopathic medicines are primarily used by a small segment of the U.S. population for common, self-limited conditions such as the common cold or back pain. The report published in the American Journal of Public Health also finds that homeopathy users, particularly those who also report visiting homeopathic practitioners, find the use of these products helpful and that they tend to use a greater variety of complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) modalities than do users of supplements and other CIMs. This is the first detailed report on the use of homeopathy in this country.

The first national survey of skin infections among high school athletes has found that wrestlers have the highest number of infections, with football players coming in a distant second, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

The study, published in the February issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, examined data from a large national sample of U.S. high schools over five years and found that 73.6 percent of skin infections occurred during wrestling followed by football with 17.9 percent. The head and neck were the most frequent site of infection.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published guidance recommending infliximab for use within its marketing authorisation as an option for treating severe active ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in adults whose disease has responded inadequately to, or who cannot tolerate, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.¹

NICE last reviewed infliximab for AS in 2008 and decided that it was not cost-effective.² However, the recent availability of biosimilar infliximab medicines in the UK has enabled NICE to recommend infliximab in its latest guidance for treating severe active AS "if treatment is started with the least expensive infliximab product".

Analyses of paintings of Michelangelo have led to the conclusion that he had osteoarthritis.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), degenerative arthritis, or osteoarthritis, affects 13.9% of American adults aged 25 years and older and 33.6% of those 65 years and above.

The risk of a child breaking a bone can depend upon their ethnicity and where they live in the UK, according to a new study.

An analysis of the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink database by researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, found that rates of broken bones were higher in white children (150 per 10,000 children per year) compared to those amongst South Asian children (81 fractures per 10,000 children per year) and black children (64 fractures per 10,000 children per year).

A team of Rochester scientists has, for the first time, identified and isolated a stem cell population capable of skull formation and craniofacial bone repair in mice--achieving an important step toward using stem cells for bone reconstruction of the face and head in the future, according to a new paper in Nature Communications.

Senior author Wei Hsu, Ph.D., dean's professor of Biomedical Genetics and a scientist at the Eastman Institute for Oral Health at the University of Rochester Medical Center, said the goal is to better understand and find stem-cell therapy for a condition known as craniosynostosis, a skull deformity in infants.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins and the Henry Ford Health System report evidence that higher levels of physical fitness may not only reduce risk of heart attacks and death from all causes, but also possibly improve the chances of survival after a first attack.

The findings, based on medical records data gathered from more than 2,000 men and women, are described in the online Feb. 1, 2016 edition of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

"We knew that fitter people generally live longer, but we now have evidence linking fitness to survival after a first heart attack," says Michael Blaha, M.D.

People hospitalized due to an encounter with a law enforcement officer are more likely to have a mental illness, have longer hospitalizations, more injuries to the back and spine, and greater need for extended care than those hospitalized due to altercations with other civilians. The findings, based on 10 years of Illinois hospitalization data, are published in the journal Injury Epidemiology.

Lee Friedman, associate professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and senior author on the paper, and his colleagues wanted to find out how many and what kinds of encounters with police led to hospital admissions for civilians in Illinois.