Sent home from a Hungarian hospital with an open jaw fracture, a man underwent life-saving surgery just hours later in Austria.

Researchers in Liverpool and Oxford have found that surgery for a common elbow fracture in children offers no clinical benefit compared to non-surgical care. The findings could have significant ...

Wearing a cast for six weeks appears to be no less effective than surgery for healing unstable ankle fractures and carries fewer treatment-related harms, finds a clinical trial from Finland published ...

Objectives Postoperative delirium is a frequent complication with possible detrimental consequences in older hip fracture patients. Music interventions are promising, with positive effects on risk ...

Your clavicle, or collarbone, is the long, thin bone that connects your chest to your shoulder. You have one on each side of your body. These bones help hold up your shoulders and allow you to move ...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. --New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo suffered an open tibia fracture and ruptured deltoid ligament in addition to a right ankle dislocation in Sunday's loss to the ...

Contreras will visit a hand specialist next week to determine whether he needs surgery to repair a fractured left middle finger, Adam McCalvy of MLB.com reports. Contreras was diagnosed with a ...

What if the next time you broke a bone, you didn’t need screws, plates, or invasive surgery to heal? Imagine a medical adhesive so powerful it could bond fractured bones in minutes, yet gentle enough ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Increased time from the ED to the OR was associated with an increased mortality rate. Increased delays to the OR ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Homelessness was associated with higher postoperative complication rates vs. patients who were housed.

If you’ve ever stood at the bedside of a 76-year old with a pancake-flat distal radius after a fall from standing height, you’ve probably asked yourself: “Is plating this really worth it?” The Dutch ...