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

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

Delhi police personnel embarked on an operation to rescue two minor boys working as bonded labourers in Sadar Bazar. They ...

A US obstetrician-gynaecologist has cast serious doubt on a high-profile child abuse conviction, saying the baby's injuries happened during labour and delivery, not parental abuse.

It confirms that the new method could effectively simulate ligament ossification ... kyphosis deformity (Zhang et al., 2023b) and, according to the principle of internal fixation for long bone ...

Bone density is critical for our posture and safe movement. When you have dense bones, you're much less likely to fracture a ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba investigated the mechanism by which posterior spinal fixation, a technique that ...

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.