P.C. ANSWER: The FRAX score is a way of combining a person’s measured bone density with clinical risk factors like age, sex and weight to provide an estimate of the fracture risk. Most ...

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities and systematically crafted tools from bone much earlier than previously ...

A hip fracture is the most common broken bone that requires hospitalization. Hip fractures usually occur in older adults and may be due to trauma like a fall. Occasionally, pathologic fractures ...

HENRICO, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - A registered nurse in Virginia who was arrested after several NICU babies were found with mysterious injuries is facing more charges, according to authorities. Erin ...

But what if that pain doesn’t go away? It could be a stress fracture—a crack in the bone caused by repeated stress rather than a single major injury. Stress fractures are common among athletes, ...

The catcher fractured the hamate bone in his left hand and will undergo surgery Monday that will sideline him for 6-8 weeks, according to manager Carlos Mendoza. Alvarez sustained the fracture on ...

A 1.5-million-year-old cache of animal-bone tools reveals that ancient humans systematically crafted with this material much earlier than previously thought. Researchers uncovered 27 bone ...

Transcarpal fractures in children are rare in the orthopaedic ... The injury healed with good wrist function but abnormal carpal development. This unusual pattern of injury is described so that ...