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
Jul 27, 2009 |
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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
Apr 04, 2011 |
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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
Nov 30, 2010 |
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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 ...
Oct 22, 2010 |
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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.
May 02, 2010 |
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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 ...
Feb 11, 2010 |
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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
Jan 14, 2010 |
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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
Jan 26, 2009 |
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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
Apr 24, 2012 |
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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
Feb 16, 2011 |
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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 ...
Feb 11, 2011 |
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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 ...
Feb 02, 2011 |
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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
Jan 10, 2011 |
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New imaging technology predicts fracture risk
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new method for identifying which bones have a high risk of fracture, and for monitoring the effectiveness of new bone-strengthening drugs and techniques, has been developed by scientists ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 27, 2010 |
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FDA warns of fractures with osteoporosis drugs
(AP) -- Government health officials warned doctors and patients Wednesday about an increased risk of thigh fractures with a widely used group of bone-strengthening drugs.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 13, 2010 |
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