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• Sports Medicine Experts Offer Insights during Beijing Olympic Games
  July 22, 2008 - Several service members have been selected as USOC team physicians for past Olympic Games. This year, Scott A. Rodeo, MD, HSS Sports Medicine Service co-chief, and John Cavanaugh, HSS Sports Rehabilitation and Performance Center clinical supervisor, will go to Beijing to support the U.S. teams....
  
  
• Hospital for Special Surgery Ranked No. 1 by U.S. News & World Report
  July 11, 2008 - For the second straight year, Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) has been named the top hospital in the nation in orthopedics by U.S. News & World Report in its 2008 “America’s Best Hospitals” survey...
  
  

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• Platelet Rich Plasma Works to Heal Tendonitis: New Non-Surgical Treatment Horizons
  July 22, 2008 - Almost everyone will feel the pain of tendonitis at some point in his or her life. The condition, which can affect any tendons in the body that are in routine use, is usually temporary and it is rare for treatment to involve anything more than ice and rest. However, occasionally tendonitis can become bad enough that pain and irritation persist past home treatment....
  
  
• Drugs to Build Bones May Weaken Them
  July 15, 2008 - New questions have emerged about whether long-term use of bone-building drugs for osteoporosis may actually lead to weaker bones in a small number of people who use them....
  
  
• Bristol's Orencia can ease juvenile arthritis: study
  July 15, 2008 - Bristol-Myers Squibb Co's Orencia can help children with rheumatoid arthritis who do not respond to other drugs, Italian researchers said on Tuesday....