Just two months ago, Sylvia Perfetto was celebrating a friend’s 60th birthday at a yoga retreat in Costa Rica. Then, on the way back from a scenic ATV ride to a coffee plantation, a blown tire sent ...

Anyone who’s spent time around a child with a broken bone knows the drill. There are the doctor visits, the X-rays, the anxious waiting to see if everything is healing properly. And for kids? The ...

Hannah Dailey, associate professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh University, studies the biomechanics of fracture fixation and bone healing. She received the 2024 Presidential ...

Every year, nearly 10 million Americans experience a broken bone. A quarter of patients with lower leg fractures face delayed healing, and one in 10 patients will develop a nonunion, a break that ...

Researchers uncover a redox-regulated mechanism that determines whether bone fractures heal or progress to non-union. Bone has an extraordinary capacity to heal after injury, restoring its structure ...