Each year, doctors treat more than 6 million bone fractures in the United States. And while it takes only a few seconds for a bone to break, the processes that keep your bones strong and allow them to ...

A long-term study of 22 patients shows that vascularized fibular grafting achieved bone healing and infection control in ...

Researchers have developed an injectable, light-cured bone adhesive that biomineralizes hydroxyapatite onto a gelatin-based ...

Healing a broken bone can take months, and knowing whether recovery is on track often takes just as long. Doctors typically rely on periodic X-rays, capturing two-dimensional images to see how the ...

A polymer membrane implant that speeds bone healing is headed soon to a human clinical trial. A new animal study indicates that healing time is about 40% faster for the new product from a company ...

UD engineer Michael Hast leads an NIH-funded effort to identify impaired bone healing earlier with MRI-based computer models Healing a broken bone can take months, and knowing whether recovery is on ...

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 ...

Exploring China’s Bone-02 medical innovation, how the technology is designed to support bone repair, and its potential impact ...

Newswise — Rarely will physicians use the word "miraculous" when discussing patient recoveries. But that's the very phrase orthopaedic physicians and scientists are using in upstate New York to ...

Most guns are tools for doing harm, but a team of American and Korean scientists has developed one that does the opposite, helping to patch up bone injuries. It comes a bit short of the Medigun from ...

A broken bone failing to heal represents an enormous burden for patients, which also often leads to further additional surgeries being required. Fraunhofer researchers have worked alongside partners ...

Bone breakages are a common injury worldwide. Some of these heal readily, whereas other injuries do not and this leads to long-term injuries and this risk of disability. Slow-healing or non-healing ...