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Featured Research
Osteoarthritis Research this week
Funding Opportunities
Current Study Recruitment

Featured Research

The Latest in Osteoarthritis Research

Epidemiology and Outcomes

• Partial meniscectomy is associated with increased risk of incident radiographic osteoarthritis and worsening cartilage damage in the following year
• Erosive and osteoarthritic structural progression in early rheumatoid arthritis
• Comparison of Synovial Fluid Cytokine Levels between Traumatic Knee Injury and End-Stage Osteoarthritis
• Semi-Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers of Knee Osteoarthritis Progression: Data from the FNIH OA Biomarkers Consortium
• Annual Incidence Rates of Hip Symptoms and Three Hip OA Outcomes from a U.S. Population-Based Cohort Study: The Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project
• Feelings of Usefulness to Others Predict Active Coping With Osteoarthritis Knee Pain

Symptom Management

• Cost-effectiveness of tramadol and oxycodone in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis
• Telephone coaching to enhance a home-based physical activity program for knee osteoarthritis: A randomised clinical trial
• Hyaluronic acid compared with corticosteroid injections for the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee: a randomized control trail

Research Methods/ Measures

• Is it feasible to merge data from national shoulder registries? A new collaboration within the Nordic Arthroplasty Register Association

Reviews, Commentaries, Statements, and Guidelines

• Translating genomics into mechanisms of disease: Osteoarthritis
• The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline on Surgical Management of Osteoarthritis of the Knee
• Biologic Treatments for Sports Injuries II Think Tank-Current Concepts, Future Research, and Barriers to Advancement, Part 3: Articular Cartilage
• Efficacy of Platelet-Rich Plasma versus Hyaluronic Acid for treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Physical activity interventions for increasing objectively measured physical activity levels in chronic musculoskeletal pain: Systematic review
• Effectiveness of physical and occupational therapy on pain, function and quality of life in patients with trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis – A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Health Benefits of Long-Term Weight-Loss Maintenance
• Topical NSAIDs for chronic musculoskeletal pain in adults
• Exercise for Osteoarthritis of the Hip
• Is physical activity, practiced as recommended for health benefit, a risk factor for osteoarthritis?

Funding

• Rheumatology Research Foundation Awards and Grants: Awards for research, education, preceptorships, and annual meetings. Application deadlines May-August.
• DEADLINE APPROACHING! Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity: RWJF is seeking research proposals that will inform efforts aimed at helping all children grow up at a healthy weight. Concept papers due May 11 and August 3.
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Global Ideas for U.S. Solutions: the RWJF is looking globally for ideas to help us build a Culture of Health in the United States. If you have an idea that has worked abroad and has the potential to be adapted to work in the United States, we want to hear from you. Webinar for applicants March 30, 2016, 11am-12pm ET, registration here. Deadline for brief proposals is May 31, 2016.
• The Rheumatology Research Foundation Innovative Research Award: Encouraging independent investigators to conduct novel studies that generate new insights into the cause, progression, treatment and outcomes of rheumatic diseases. LOI due June 1, 2016. Application deadline July 1, 2016.
• Notice of Additional Participation in PAR-16-052 “Global Noncommunicable Diseases and Injury Across the Lifespan: Exploratory Research (R21)“, This Notice is to inform potential applicants that additional NIH components will participate in PAR-16-052 and to detail additional interests of NIDA and NIA.
• T2 Translational Research: Research Leading to New Health Care Practices, Community Programs and Policies Affecting Older Persons (R21)
• Research Grants Using the Resources from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) (R21)
• Research Grants Using the Resources from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) (R01)
• Health and Human Services Innovator-in-Residence for health policy innovation to lower the cost and improve the quality of healthcare for seniors
• Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Centers of Research Translation (P50)
• Evidence for Action: Investigator-Initiated Research to Build a Culture of Health

Current Study Recruitment

• Health of Adults’ Longitudinal Observational (HALO) Study: Is Recreational Running Associated with the Development and Progression of Knee Osteoarthritis. The HALO Study is a study being conducted by researchers from the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Sport, Exercise and Osteoarthritis and the University of Nottingham and seeks to understand the relationship between chronic disease, such as osteoarthritis, and physical activity, such as running, by following a population of runners over a number of years. All runners in the UK and Australia are invited to take part.
• CenterWatch Osteoarthritis Clinical Research Trials by state