Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA Increased age- and sex-adjusted US fracture ...

Although the phenomenon of ‘fracture begets fracture’ is widely known, approximately 80% of patients who sustain a fragility fracture are not diagnosed with or treated for osteoporosis. This treatment ...

An estimated 13 million people are living with osteoporosis in Japan. 1 The bone disorder results in painful and disabling fragility fractures, often leading to long-term loss of mobility and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Although cement augmentation did not alter the rate of secondary fracture after osteoporotic ...

What if the next time you broke a bone, you didn’t need screws, plates, or invasive surgery to heal? Imagine a medical adhesive so powerful it could bond fractured bones in minutes, yet gentle enough ...

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), ...

Among men with an initial fracture, 12.7% refractured within the first year and 16.7% within the second year. Most men who refractured had CVD, hypertension, diabetes, fall history or impaired ...