Patients with above-the-knee amputations have been outfitted with prosthetic legs for more than 500 years. But in recent decades, these prostheses have advanced to become in-bone, where the prosthesis ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba investigated the mechanism by which posterior spinal fixation, a technique that fixes the infected vertebrae by sandwiching them between normal vertebrae, ...

Both the diagnosis of haematogenous long bone osteomyelitis and appropriate antimicrobial therapy are based on the isolation of the pathogen(s) from the bone lesion, blood or joint cultures. Proper ...

Collarbone surgery involves repairing a broken clavicle bone. Surgeons will try to realign the displaced bone and fix it in place to help it heal. People can usually return to their usual activities ...

Every year, 700,000 people die due to antibiotic resistance. Now, researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a specialized drug-device delivery system to identify an effective ...