Patients with indolent systemic mastocytosis exhibit a distinct vertebral fracture pattern, marked by a predominance of ...

Any kind of fracture was predictive of more fractures in postmenopausal women, new data suggested. In a prospective, observational study of over 66,000 women from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), ...

Following that skateboarding accident or complaints of pain after gymnastics practice, it may be time to visit your pediatrician to discuss a potential growth plate injury. Your pediatrician will do ...

This week we are going to discuss the fifth metatarsal of the foot, that is the bone that connects to the pinky toe. The fifth metatarsal is higher up in the foot than the pinky toe and has several ...

People with type 2 diabetes (T2D) have an increased fracture risk, even though their bone mineral density (BMD) values often fall within the normal or above-normal range. Conventional tools for ...

What Is an Avulsion Fracture? An avulsion fracture happens when a ligament or tendon pulls away a small piece of a bone. This usually results from an accident or traumatic injury. Avulsion fractures ...

Your talus bone is the bottom part of the ankle joint. It connects your foot to the two bones in your lower leg — the tibia and fibula — that make up the top part of the ankle. The talus lies just ...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine possible factors associated with the increased risk of fractures observed with rosiglitazone in A Diabetes Outcome Progression Trial (ADOPT).

A study established a quantitative fracture identification method for the igneous reservoir rock in the Xingcheng group of Xushen gas field, a field near Daqing in northeastern China. The method uses ...