The Nets’ new wing went down with the injury in his first game with Brooklyn, and his status will be updated in four weeks.

Medically reviewed by Theresa Marko, PT There are three main bones in the leg. The femur is the long bone in your thigh that ...

A new US task force draft advises against vitamin D and calcium for fall prevention in healthy older adults. The task force says supplements do not reduce risks. This contradicts earlier ...

The draft USPSTF recommendation is similar to the task force’s previous conclusion, as more research has cast doubt on the usefulness of supplements to prevent age-related bone fractures among ...

A displaced fracture means that the end of the broken bone has moved from where it should be. A nondisplaced fracture means there is a crack in the bone, but it is still aligned. Symptoms of ...

“Those falls cause risks of bone breaks, which can have really important health consequences. So, the task force is very interested in whether there are ways to prevent such falls and fractures in the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Philadelphia 76ers’ Joel Embiid, center, gets helped off the court after getting hit in the face during ...

Geneva, 17 December 2024 — Sixty percent of persons internally displaced by conflict or disaster would rather remain in their current locations than return to their communities of origin, according to ...

Background: The relationship between diabetes mellitus (DM) and bone mineral density (BMD) in patients with osteoporotic fractures (OPFs) remains complex and heterogeneous, specifically between the ...

The team found the bones had cut marks usually associated with defleshing along with perimortem fractures — fractures to the bones after death. This suggests that the individuals may have been ...

He did not return to the game. The 76ers announced after the game that he'd suffered a sinus fracture and will receive a further evaluation this weekend. The situation creates a level of concern ...