New research to identify factors associated with improved outcomes for older adults recovering from hip fractures found a ...

Older patients who underwent hip fracture surgery with either regional anesthesia without sedation or general anesthesia experienced similar incidences of postoperative cognitive decline.

AST/ALT ratio may predict 1-year mortality in elderly patients operated for femoral neck fracture suggests a study published ...

With intraoperative femur fractures on the rise, surgeons should aim to prevent these fractures from occurring by identifying high-risk patients and surgical risk factors, according to a presenter ...

Among people with dementia, the predicted one-year mortality was 35.4% in those with hip fracture compared to 14.8% in those without the injury, the data showed.

This is the time frame when the bone holding the implant is most susceptible to fracture. Therefore, current recommendations are to avoid running, jumping, and lifting for the first 12 months after ...

Conclusions: Hip fractures, especially femoral neck fractures ... The most common surgical treatment for hip fracture was replacement surgery, forearm and humerus fractures internal fixation, ...

Smith fractured his left, non-shooting hand at shootaround before the Boston game and it will require surgery, coach Ime Udoka told reporters. How long he will be out will depend upon the surgery.

Inclusion criteria were defined as follows: (1) patients aged 65 years or older; (2) patients who received internal fixation for an intertrochanteric fracture or hemiarthroplasty for a femoral ...

Pakistan opener Saim Ayub will travel to London to have his ankle fracture treated. The PCB, who had earlier said he would stay with the team and fly back to Pakistan at the end of the Newlands ...

A former nurse was arrested for child abuse in connection to a horrifying incident that left three premature babies with “unexplainable fractures” at a Virginia hospital — which has since ...