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Among the steps being taken: instead of disclosing payments from companies as footnotes, The Spine Journal intends to put them in the body of articles.
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The Spine Journal published a paper saying that side effects for Infuse, a protein drug used to cause bone growth, were not properly included in medical journal articles.
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Instead, authors repeatedly asserted the device, called Infuse, caused few complications, according to the report by The Spine Journal, the official publication of the North American Spine Society.
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In a recent 84-patient study published in the Spine Journal, Rainville found half of the patients in the study on narcotics were able to stop taking them after six weeks of exercise therapy.
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Two landmark studies last year in the New England Journal of Medicine found that a similar spine procedure (vertebroplasty) was no better than a fake operation--raising serious questions over whether the pain relief patients report from kyphoplasty is nothing more than an expensive placebo effect.
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Based on the Journal's analysis, Dr. Vaccaro's hospital performed 1, 177 spine fusions on Medicare beneficiaries from 2004 to 2008.
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