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  • MRI May Spot Meningitis from Tainted Steroids (CME/CE)
    (MedPage Today) -- A screening MRI may provide early warning of spinal or paraspinal meningitis in patients who received contaminated steroid injections, researchers reported.
  • Smoking Pot Eases Tremors in Parkinson's (CME/CE)
    SYDNEY (MedPage Today) -- Smoking cannabis appeared to reduce tremor and pain and improve sleep among Parkinson's disease patients, researchers from Israel reported here.
  • Medtronic $$$ Buy Reports That Slam Spine Product
    (MedPage Today) -- Two independent reports published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine found that Medtronic's spine surgery product known as Infuse offered little benefit over conventional spine surgery and may be linked to serious harms including cancer and a complication that causes sterility in men.
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