A bone bruise occurs when force strikes the bone hard enough to cause damage to its surface structure. Rather than a break in ...

DEAR DOCTORS: I slipped and slammed my shin on the metal ledge of a moving van. I could still move my toes, turn my foot, stand on it and walk, so I figured it wasn’t a break. A few days later, a big ...

Researchers have resolved one of the great unknowns in bone self-repair: how the cells responsible for forming new bone tissue are called into action. Their work reveals the role of an ...

Hafnium nanoparticles that home onto microfractures in bone make the tiny cracks visible in spectral or color computed tomography (CT) imaging. Researchers at the University of Illinois at ...

When Sens forward Mark Stone suffered a microfracture to his right wrist after a slash from Habs defenceman P.K. Subban on Wednesday night, a whole whack of so-called medical doctors gave their ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and the University of Baltimore (UMB) are testing a new method of X-ray imaging that uses color to identify microfractures in bones.

A drug that’s been prescribed for osteoporosis for over 2 decades isn’t helping bones get stronger. Rather, the drug has been linked to increased incidence of hip fractures. Now, scientists say the ...