Two projects, one in China and one in Korea, aim to make bone fractures in the future much less of a nuisance than they ...

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, ...

A model of the a-Heal wearable device. As a wound heals, it goes through several stages: clotting to stop bleeding, immune system response, scabbing, and scarring. A wearable device called “a-Heal,” ...

Impaired fracture healing is a clinical management challenge. Fracture healing can be impaired due to several factors, such as aging, chronic inflammation or metabolic abnormalities. Osteoclasts play ...

Vitamin D deficiency is a serious public health issue that affects millions of people. A recent report from the Indian Council of Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) reveals that one ...

Compared with patients with normal vitamin D levels, those with low vitamin D levels had significantly longer clinical (44.0 vs 37.0 days) and radiographic (74.0 vs 39.0 days) healing times.

In more complex bone problems like severe, irregular fractures or resections done as part of bone cancer treatment, the bone ...

Penn Medicine researchers found a type of stem cell that can turn into bone. Credit: Uma Mukhopadhyay Penn Medicine researchers unveiled in a recently published paper that a type of stem cell ...