TO THE relief of England, footballer David Beckham’s broken foot mended just in time for the World Cup. But if he’d been taking certain painkillers things might have been very different. Some drugs may delay or even prevent the healing of fractures.
“It’s time to tell the public,” says Thomas Einhorn, an orthopaedic surgeon at Boston University Medical Center and also a paid consultant to Merck, which makes one of the drugs under scrutiny. “It would seem that a prudent approach is to temporarily avoid the use of these drugs during bone healing.”
The main concern is the new generation…
