A new review examines the effectiveness of surgical treatments for severe osteoarthritis, highlighting the dominance of total ...

Scientists are experimenting with a surprising method to relieve knee pain — and it has nothing to do with your knees.

A new study has found the non-invasive application of in-ear electrical stimulation to the vagus nerve to be safe and ...

Metformin was associated with significantly reduced knee pain among patients with overweight/obesity and knee osteoarthritis.

Promptly starting physical therapy after a diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis, and attending 13 or more sessions, decreases the ...

Pacira BioSciences, Inc. announced that it will present findings from a Phase 1 study of its gene therapy candidate, PCRX-201 (enekinragene inzadenovec), for knee osteoarthritis at the 28th Annual ...

The number of people suffering from osteoarthritis is expected to top 1 billion by 2050. The biggest risk factor for the prevalent, often painful, chronic joint disease is aging. And like aging, there ...

T HURSDAY, May 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with overweight or obesity and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis, metformin is associated with a greater improvement in knee pain than placebo ...

LRX712 was the more advanced of the two candidates. The Swiss drugmaker began a phase 2 trial of the asset in patients with knee osteoarthritis in 2020. A spokesperson for Novartis confirmed the ...

The inexpensive diabetes pill metformin significantly reduced pain from knee osteoarthritis in a small trial of people who are overweight or have obesity. Results from a small trial suggest that ...

A common diabetes drug can reduce the pain of people with knee osteoarthritis and overweight or obesity, possibly delaying the need for knee replacements, Monash University-led research has found.

Some of the 107 participants with pain from knee osteoarthritis (73 women and 34 men), who had a mean age of 60, took up to 2000 mg of metformin daily for six months. Others took the placebo. None ...