What’s New in Musculoskeletal Basic Science

Rapid Survey of Wasting and Stunting in Children: Whats New, Whats Old and Whats the Buzz?

Nationwide Rapid Survey on Children (RSoC), conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and UNICEF in 2013-14 showed a marked improvement in the status of the child malnutrition over the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) that was conducted in 2005-06. Despite some impressive gains in the anthropometric indicators of malnutrition, the absolute levels remain high, and of c...

Leprosy – New Opportunities in Basic Science

Basic Musculoskeletal Imaging

Radiological imaging has become a routine assessment for patients with orthopaedic and traumatic disorders. Diagnosis and treatments of orthopaedic conditions would not be commenced safely prior to appropriate radiological assessment. At times, orthopaedic surgeons need to be independent and not relying too much on their radiological colleagues, as many conditions can be easily interpreted. It ...

A new basic science journal for ESSKA

ESSKA is a non-profit organization that stands for quality, independence, high ethical standards and rigor. ESSKA has during the past few years experienced an exceptional growth, undergoing several important changes/improvements and consolidating its position as one of the world’s leading societies in orthopaedic sports traumatology and degenerative joint disease. ESSKA has doubled the number o...

Advances in basic science.

Basic science continues to occupy a substantial portion of the program at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. At the 17th conference this year, presentations focused on advances in our understanding of cellular factors that regulate the interplay between the virus and the host cell and, in particular, cellular defenses such as tetherin (or BST-2) that antagonize viral r...