AAOS Approves Updated OA Knee CPG

David S. Jevsevar, MD, MBA

The AAOS, with input from representatives of the American College of Rheumatology, the American Academy of Family Practice, and the American Physical Therapy Association, recently published a collaborative clinical practice guideline (CPG) on the Treatment of Osteoarthritis (OA) of the Knee (Non-Arthroplasty)—2nd Edition.

Fighting with and for Adolescent Osteosarcoma Patients

Mark Crawford

Osteosarcoma is the most common kind of bone cancer in children. Found mostly in teenagers, these tumors have a very high propensity for local invasion and distant metastasis. Nearly 1,000 new cases are diagnosed in the United States every year. Despite treatment protocols that include intensive chemotherapy and surgical resection, osteosarcoma still recurs in more than 30 percent of treated patients, most commonly in the lung.