Every year, nearly 10 million Americans experience a broken bone. A quarter of patients with lower leg fractures face delayed ...

Tiny implantable sensors are helping to heal broken bones quicker. The devices allow data-enabled resistance training to speed up the natural healing process in lab rats, say American scientists.

That unmistakable sound of bone giving way under pressure sends immediate dread through anyone who hears it. Broken bones account for millions of medical visits annually in the United States alone, ...

When treating severely broken bones, doctors want new bone tissue to grow back as fast as possible, and they also want to keep the wound site from becoming infected. Scientists have developed an ...

Its aim is to inhibit the growth of bacteria at the wound site and support the growth of new bone structures. This innovative medical engineering is the result of the SCABAEGO joint research project, ...

Fat tissue stem cells have shown a remarkable ability to heal spinal fractures and restore bone strength in rats. The ...

A comminuted fracture is when a bone breaks into three or more pieces. These typically require surgery and take longer to heal than other fractures. A comminuted fracture happens when you break a bone ...

Good news for pro football players, Jackass cast members, and people brave enough to stand in line for an over-hyped next-gen video game console: there’s a new device in the works that’ll heal those ...

Kids will be kids, playing, running, and jumping. But sometimes accidents happen. Many of these result in fractures of the arm, wrist, ankle, or leg. The good news is that 90 percent of all children's ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine—Tucson found evidence that a drug that improves the ability to walk in people with multiple sclerosis can also make bone fractures heal ...