NIOSH Required To Study MSD Rates Under Possible Bill On Orthopaedic Access

NIOSH could be required to conduct a study of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) rates as one piece of a legislative package to expand awareness and access to orthopaedic services, a bill that gained bipartisan backing in the last Congress and may be introduced again this year. The push for additional government research comes as OSHA renews its contentious regulatory efforts to gather more MSD data from work sites around the country. More than 300 orthopaedic surgeons went to Capitol Hill last week to pressure members of Congress to support the Access to America's Orthopaedic Servic