North Carolina has reported its first case of the B.1.1.7 COVID 19 variant strain. The state's first known case of the variant was found in Mecklenburg County.
Stepped Exercise Program Shows Benefits for Knee OA medscape.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from medscape.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Dec 30, 2020
TUESDAY, Dec. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) A stepped exercise program results in modest improvements for symptoms of knee osteoarthritis, according to a study published online Dec. 29 in the
Annals of Internal Medicine.
Kelli D. Allen, Ph.D., from the Durham VA Health Care System in North Carolina, and colleagues conducted a randomized controlled trial at two U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs sites involving 345 patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis. Participants were randomly assigned in a 2:1 ratio to either a stepped exercise program for patients with knee osteoarthritis (STEP-KOA) or an arthritis education control group. The STEP-KOA intervention included three months of an internet-based exercise program (step 1); three months of biweekly physical activity coaching calls (step 2) for those who did not meet response criteria for improvement in pain and function after step 1; and in-person physical therapy visits (step 3) for those who did not meet respon
By STEVE BEYNON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 14, 2020
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. WASHINGTON The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday administered its first doses of the coronavirus vaccine as part of national inoculation effort to prevent the disease as the death toll from the virus surpassed 300,000 in the United States. World War II Army veteran Margaret Klessens, 96, is the VA’s first patient to receive the vaccine, VA Secretary Robert Wilkie announced. She is a patient of the Bedford Healthcare System in Massachusetts. The Bedford VA system is a set of three clinics outside of Boston that has seen 473 coronavirus infections and 39 deaths, according to the VA.