News tagged with bone fractures

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Nanodiamonds deliver insulin for wound healing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacterial infection is a major health threat to patients with severe burns and other kinds of serious wounds such as traumatic bone fractures. Recent studies have identified an important new weapon for fighting ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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'Inhabitants of Madrid' ate elephants' meat and bone marrow 80,000 years ago

Humans that populated the banks of the river Manzanares (Madrid, Spain) during the Middle Palaeolithic (between 127,000 and 40,000 years ago) fed themselves on pachyderm meat and bone marrow. This is what ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study finds leptin restores fertility, may improve bone health in lean women

Women with extremely low body fat, including runners and dancers, as well as women with eating disorders, are prone to develop hypothalamic amenorrhea, a condition in which their menstrual periods cease, triggering such serious ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Researchers develop more reliable, less expensive synthetic graft material

With a failure rate as high as 50 percent, bone tissue grafts pose a significant obstacle to orthopedic surgeons attempting to repair complex fractures or large areas of bone loss, such as those often caused by trauma and ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

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Best Beers for Bone Health?

The old advertising slogan that "Guinness is Good for You" may have some truth to it after all. Every pint of the black stuff contains as much silicon as a pinch of sand -- and that silicon, according to recent but controversial ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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Gene find offers hope of screening test for bone disease

Scientists have discovered three genes linked to the development of Paget's disease, a painful bone condition that affects up to one million people in the UK.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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New research confirms benefits of calcium and vitamin D in preventing fractures

Taking both calcium and vitamin D supplements on a daily basis reduces the risk of bone fractures, regardless of whether a person is young or old, male or female, or has had fractures in the past, a large study of nearly ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Hip fractures and thyroid disease linked in study

New research from UC Davis Health System finds that older men with subclinical thyroid dysfunction have an increased risk of suffering hip fractures and suggests that screening and treatment for thyroid dysfunction in its ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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Study looks at getting stroke patients back on their feet

Home-based physical therapy to improve the strength and balance of stroke survivors works about as well to get them walking again as treadmill training done in a physical therapy lab, according to the results of a study presented ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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Astronauts on International Space Station lose alarming amounts of hipbone strength

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronauts spending months in space lose significant bone strength, making them increasingly at risk for fractures later in life.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Natural occurring protein leaves clues for osteoporosis

A naturally occurring protein may hold the key to treatments for osteoporosis, University of Sydney researchers have reported in this month's Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, the official journal of the American Soc ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Anti-epileptic drugs associated with increased risk of fracture in older adults

Most anti-epileptic drugs are associated with an increased risk of non-traumatic fracture in individuals 50 years of age and older, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Neurology.

Medicine & Health / Medications

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Painful hip fractures strike breast cancer survivors

A hip fracture is not common in a 54-year-old woman, unless she is a 54-year-old breast cancer survivor, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. Researchers found that a combination of early menopause due to breast ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Exercise associated with lower rate of fractures in elderly women

Home-based exercises followed by voluntary home training seem to be associated with long-term effects on balance and gait (manner of walking), and may help protect high-risk, elderly women from hip fractures, according to ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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Dutch researchers develop smart biomaterial that triggers bone growth

Researchers from University of Twente's MIRA research institute and its spin-off business Progentix Orthobiology BV have developed a biomaterial that promotes the formation of bone tissue. It can be used to ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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