MicroRNA-27a has been shown to stimulate both the wingless-type integration site family, or Wnt signaling, and the bone morphogenetic protein pathways to actively promote bone regeneration, according ...

The Food and Drug Administration, which is part of HHS, announced this week that it’s beginning to remove ingestible fluoride ...

HealthDay News — Preinjury mobility data predicts recovery following a lower-extremity fracture in adults, according to a proof-of-concept study published online April 28 in the Journal of Bone & ...

When treating obesity, semaglutide may be associated with a reduced fracture risk compared with sleeve gastrectomy.

The skeleton of a man with a severe dislocated fracture of the knee, found in a cemetery in Lund, southern Sweden, is helping ...

A combination of X-ray from NASA's Chandra observatory and radio data indicates that a galactic "fracture" was likely caused ...

before it leads to bone fractures. A DEXA scan is painless. It involves lying still for up to 30 minutes while an X-ray is used to measure the amount of calcium and other minerals in your bones.

A stress and a hairline fracture are the same injury, most often affecting the foot or leg. Learn what could speed up healing ...

Wolk The bone appears to have been struck by a fast ... Examining this image closely reveals the presence of a break, or fracture, in the otherwise continuous length of G359.13 seen in the image.

The researchers think the pulsar likely caused the fracture by smashing into G359.13 at a speed between one million and two million miles per hour. This collision distorted the magnetic field in the ...

Researchers in Australia and Canada have developed a machine learning algorithm capable of identifying cardiovascular risks, as well as fall and fracture potential, using standard bone density ...

A vertebral compression fracture (VCF) is a break in an individual bone, or vertebra, of the spine that causes the vertebra to collapse. A lumbar VCF affects the lower spine. When a VCF occurs ...