Researchers have developed a new surgical implant that has the potential to transform the treatment of complex bone infections. When implanted on an injured or infected bone, the material can not only ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A University of Arizona study suggests a drug already approved for multiple sclerosis could help broken bones heal faster and stronger. The drug, 4-aminopyridine, or 4-AP, was ...

Kathleen Lunz-Gewirtz is glad to be walking again. She slipped on ice outside her home last year, breaking her lower leg in two places. "The pain was excruciating, I've had three children. I’ve had a ...

Sporting autographed casts for months may one day become a thing of the past. The FDA has approved a noninvasive bone healing device designed to be worn after a fracture that uses ultrasound waves to ...

Penn Medicine researchers unveiled in a recently published paper that a type of stem cell originating in skeletal muscle cells can turn into bone. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

An X-ray image of a control rat femur that has not properly healed (left) compared to a rat femur in its eighth week of plasma irradiation. “Break a leg!” is a welcome blessing of good luck, but who ...

NICE has assessed the EXOGEN ultrasound bone healing system to help the NHS decide whether to use this product. The EXOGEN ultrasound bone healing system delivers low-intensity pulsed ultrasound to ...

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 ...

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Messenger RNA technology could have broad applications beyond preventing COVID-19 with vaccines. Besides the infectious disease and cancer areas that industry leaders BioNTech and Moderna are already ...

28 November 2023: Researchers at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research Centre (AMBER) have developed a new surgical implant that has the ...