From your description of the event, it sounds like you sustained a mild injury to the medial collateral ligament, or MCL. This is the band of tough, fibrous tissue that anchors the femur and the ...

May 13, 2011— -- Many doctors are changing the prescribing length of a class of osteoporosis medication known as bisphosphonates after mounting evidence has linked long-term use of the medication ...

BALTIMORE -- The use of long-stem hemiarthroplasty (LSHA) did not improve quality-of-life (QoL) or functional outcomes compared to intramedullary nailing (IMN) in treating pathological fractures of ...

A human femur bone found near the mouth of the Eel River near Fortuna, California, in June 2019, has been positively identified as belonging to Sheila Franks, who went missing in early 2014, the ...

Q: My mom is 61. She started having hip pain and figured it meant a hip replacement surgery at some point in the future. When ...

Now, this is one bone you don't want to pick with. Paleontologists have unearthed a 140-million-year-old dinosaur bone, 6.5 feet in length, weighing 1,100 pounds in France. The thigh bone was ...

A rock spotted by NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars that looks like a femur bone, is actually just a weathered Martian rock formation. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS A bizarre snapshot of the surface of Mars has ...

(Corrects to show Actonel is owned by Warner Chilcott, 4th paragraph) * FDA says no thigh fracture risk with bisphosphonates * Bisphosphonates such as Fosamax treat osteoporosis * FDA statement ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Osteoporosis drugs used by millions of women to prevent bones from breaking may increase the chances for an unusual type of thigh fracture, U.S. health officials warned on ...