Steroid injections are frequently used to relieve pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee and hip, but new evidence suggests the treatment may do more harm than good for some people. Experts ...

BOSTON - Hip and knee intra-articular corticosteroid injections, which are quite commonly given to treat joint pain, may be more harmful than medical professionals previously thought, according to new ...

Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) reviewed the medical records of several hundred patients who ...

BOSTON, Massachusetts (WPVI) -- The popular steroid shots for knee and hip pain may do more harm than good. A special report in the journal Radiology says steroids may relieve pain, but might speed up ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Many Americans with aching joints are offered steroid injections to help ease their pain, but local researchers say those shots are causing more harm. Steroid injections, often combined ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. - Corticosteroid injections used to treat osteoarthritis pain in the hip and knee may be more dangerous than previously thought, according to a special report published in the journal ...

Dry needling may be a viable treatment alternative to cortisone injection for patients with chronic, intermittent pain and tenderness on the outside of the hip, thus avoiding the potentially harmful ...

As an assistant dean at the Boston University School of Medicine, Maria Ober sees a lot of the studies by the school's researchers before they're published in scientific journals. One that crossed her ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Musa Zaid, MD, and colleagues from the department of orthopedic surgery at the University of California, San ...

Osteoarthritis patients who received a steroid injection in the hip had a significantly greater incidence of bone death and collapse compared with control groups, according to new research.

BOSTON - Hip and knee intra-articular corticosteroid injections, which are quite commonly given to treat joint pain, may be more harmful than medical professionals previously thought, according to new ...