The growing paleopathological literature shows that scurvy was not a rare problem among people living in the ancient Asia-Pacific tropics. Scurvy is increasingly identified throughout the region, ...

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins ...

With increasing life expectancy, frailty and hip fractures will correspondingly increase in numbers, now at more than 300,000 fractures per year and projected to rise to more than 500,000 by 2040. Hip ...

According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern Bulgaria suggests that it ...

New fossil discoveries in the Balkans suggest that the first human ancestors may have originated in Europe rather than Africa, challenging established theories of human evolution.

One Portland police officer lost a part of his ear and another’s femur was shattered when a man shot at them on Jan. 19 after they tried to detain him for allegedly threatening someone with a knife, ...

“Grey’s Anatomy” is back from its summer hiatus ready to resolve a big cliffhanger before celebrating another TV milestone. The ABC medical drama led by Ellen Pompeo returns for Season 22 with many of ...

Defining Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Older Adults With Cancer: A Scoping Literature Review The literature search identified 100 relevant studies to inform the evidence base for this guideline.

Being sedentary for more than six hours a day greatly increased the risk of neck pain, according to a systematic research review published in the journal BMC Public Health. The review’s authors looked ...

Bone stress injuries, which include stress fractures, can be debilitating to athletes but are also a problem for the U.S. military, according to public health experts. “Service members who develop ...

Read at the Annual Meeting of the New England Surgical Society at Burlington, Vermont, September 29, 1934. O'Meara, John W. — Senior Orthopedic Surgeon, Worcester City Hospital. For record and address ...

Femoral neck BMD had better prognostic power for 5-year hip fracture risk than the FRAX and Garvan models among adults aged 80 years and older. The incorporation of femoral neck bone mineral density ...