Heterotopic ossification happens when bone grows outside of its normal location and into the surrounding soft tissues of your body. When this happens, the pieces of bone that develop are called ...

While full-grown adults have 206 bones, babies are born with far more. Here's how many, and what happens to them.

Heterotopic ossification, or HO, is a condition that largely occurs in patients after spinal cord injuries when the soft tissues of the hip surrounding the joints become ossified with bone spurs.

That is the predicament of patients with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) or “Stone Man Syndrome”, a rare ...

Ipsen has set a list price of $624,000 for the drug, higher than expected by analysts, according to ... abnormal bone growth, known as heterotopic ossification (HO), which causes debilitating ...