Among older adults who sustained a hip fracture, a significant proportion demonstrated varying levels of resilience across different HRQOL domains.

Are you worried about bone fractures? If you are age 50 and older, you should be paying attention to your bone health.

Running has become a national life sport as the number of people who enjoy walking and running has increased rapidly.

After emerging on the scene in the early 2000s, fracture liaison services (FLS) have solidified their place for preventing ...

An osteoanabolic agent should be the first choice treatment for patients at high or imminent risk for fracture, but once ...

Neuraxial anesthesia is associated with significantly reduced odds of several major postoperative complications in patients undergoing hip fracture procedures, according to research presented at the ...

The HKUMed research team used AI to identify distinct clusters or subphenotypes of hip fracture patients based on their clinical profiles. The team found three clusters in the Hong Kong cohort ...

In the case of a hip fracture, operating on a patient with dementia can be a difficult decision to make. Indeed, surgery exposes patients with dementia to a higher mortality rate, more delirium ...

New Delhi: Elderly patients with hip fractures face a higher risk of mortality if they have anaemia or abnormal sodium levels before undergoing surgery. This was revealed in a study by All India ...

In the year before the fracture, up to 45 percent of the women and 14 percent of the men had been treated for osteoporosis. The analysis revealed that those within a year of a hip, vertebral or ...

But with age, bones become more porous, increasing the risk of fractures and breaks. Although these may seem like minor injuries, they are anything but. An eye-opening new study reveals that hip ...