Metal screws are indispensable in bone surgery, but they can fail under everyday stress and complications can occur when screws loosen or even break. Until now, it has been difficult to accurately ...

For many years, bone mineral density (BMD) has been used as the gold-standard measure when diagnosing osteoporosis, predicting fracture risk and monitoring response to therapy. Nevertheless, over the ...

Trabecular bone score derived from DXA measurements revealed evidence of degraded bone structure in adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa, according to research in The Journal of Clinical ...

"Postmenopausal women with low bone mass should obtain adequate calcium and vitamin D and participate in bone-loading exercises," researchers summarize in a recent study published in Osteoporosis ...

The lacrimal bone is perhaps the most fragile bone of the face and one of the smallest bones in the body. Spanning between the middle of each eye socket, each lacrimal is thin and scalelike and serves ...

Figure 1: Comparison of collagen density and organization between in vitro models and bone. Interestingly, for all of the models cited above, that is, dilute and concentrated collagen conditions, the ...

While a plant-based diet may be associated with lower bone mineral density and increased fracture risk, there might be a way to counteract that: pumping iron. New Austrian research shows that vegans ...