New expensive back procedure exposed as ineffective

Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 08:42 in Health & Medicine

A world-first study involving Monash University and the Cabrini Research Institute in Melbourne has revealed the injection of bone cement into broken vertebrae is not an effective treatment for patients suffering painful osteoporotic fractures.

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