Today on The Law & You “Do I have a case if urgent care missed a fracture on an X-ray and I kept walking on it for weeks? I ...

Older people's risk of recurrent fractures decreases by 18 percent if the care they receive is more structured and preventive, through fracture liaison services. This is shown by a study from the ...

Currently, only 20% of patients who sustain a fragility fracture are offered screening or treatment for osteoporosis. This treatment gap represents a missed opportunity to protect patients from a ...

Secondary fracture risk fell by 18% when high-risk elders received coordinated fracture care, say Swedish researchers. Investigators studied outcomes in Swedish hospitals that had introduced fracture ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women who sustain any type of osteoporotic fracture have higher adjusted all-cause health care costs and ...

Stryker SYK recently announced the launch of the T2 Alpha Humerus Nailing System, expanding its T2 Alpha product portfolio.

Patients who seek fracture care at a facility that treats a higher proportion of patients from racial or ethnic minorities or a higher number of uninsured patients are more likely to face a ...

ATLANTA — The dismal rate at which treatment of osteoporosis is initiated following any fragility fracture in the United States can be dramatically improved with the help of a fracture-liaison service ...

Hip fracture is the most common serious injury in older adults, affecting more than 80,000 people in the U.K. every year. The loss of mobility, function, and independence after a hip fracture means ...

HealthFirst opened the doors of two new care centers, the Center for Fracture Care at Melbourne, Fla.-based Holmes Regional Medical Center, and the Center for Joint Replacement at Viera (Fla.) ...

Findings from a new Geisel-led study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, reveal that there is substantial variation across different regions of the country in the intensity of ...