Early Diagnosis For Osteoarthritis

 23.08.2008 10:18   medicalnewstoday.com

A newly developed medical imaging technology may provide doctors with a long-awaited test for early diagnosis of osteoarthritis (OA), scientists from New York reported at the 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. By far the most common form of arthritis, OA is a bane of the Baby Boom generation, causing joint pain and disability for more than half of those over 65 - nearly 21 million people in the United States.

World Orthopedics