A new device for diagnosing bone fragility invented by the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) and the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has been approved for marketing in the European Economic Area and ...

Forget fragile aging; certified experts reveal why high-impact "thuds" and strategic stress are the clinical keys to building unbreakable bones in your 40s and beyond.

INDIANAPOLIS –– An Indianapolis professor wants to bring more attention to osteoporosis and how people can better maintain their bone health. Rachel Surowiec is a Purdue biomedical engineering ...

A Claremore woman is speaking about her experience with a disease that most people have never heard of. Mihaley Schlegel, 20, has osteogenesis imperfecta, a rare disease that causes brittle bones. She ...

The building blocks of a structure consist of load-bearing elements that rarely change despite renovations or repairs. They remain intact and consistent over time, but in the human body, our building ...

Breaking a bone can cause pain, physical disability, loss of independence, and even death, especially in older people. In Brazil, around 400,000 fractures occur due to bone fragility every year, ...

Jay Manuel, 28, and Pamela Chavez, 30, were both born with osteogenesis imperfecta type 3 — often called brittle bone disease. The rare genetic bone disorder makes people more susceptible to breaking ...