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Bone Diseases
Bone Diseases: refers to the medical conditions which affect the bone. Some bone diseases are Bone Cancer, Bone Density, Bone Infections, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Osteonecrosis, Osteoporosis, Paget's Disease of Bone, Rickets, and there are others. Osteoporosis is the most common bone disease, which is characterized by low bone mass and deterioration of bone structure. Osteoporosis can be prevented, as well as diagnosed and treated.
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AUG 30, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
After waiting for months and even years for a kidney, those who had a successful kidney transplant must still continue t
...
AUG 18, 2017
Videos
3D printing is cutting edge technology that has applications for everything from computer parts to space travel to medic
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 16, 2017
Cancer
A protein from the “shaggy ink cap” mushroom may be a lethal fighter against leukemia cells, scientists repo
...
AUG 12, 2017
Immunology
Immune cells all over the body protect native human cells from pathogens like bacteria and viruses, but in the testis, i
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 12, 2017
Cancer
For children with bone cancer below the knee, a revolutionary procedure removes the tumor while also allowing for better
...
AUG 08, 2017
Cancer
Chemotherapy that’s intended to kill cancer could, in some disturbing twists of fate, help cancer metastasize. Ala
...
AUG 01, 2017
Immunology
Scientists have known for a while that HIV hides in the body, undetected by the immune system and unaffected by antiretr
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 27, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Calcium is the most common mineral in the body, and 99 percent of it is stored in the bones and teeth, where it fulfills
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 22, 2017
Cancer
Cancer cells evolved to have cunning strategies to protect themselves against the body’s defenses. One of these st
...
JUL 22, 2017
Cancer
A cutting-edge therapy that uses a person’s own immune cells to kill cancer just received a historic vote of confi
...
JUL 06, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
This new data on a rare disease could help diagnose the disorder in new patients, and has led researchers to test new tr
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 29, 2017
Neuroscience
When you think about the brain, how much it does, how resilient it is, while at the same time how easily it can be damag
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 24, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
New research is challenging a long-held assumption in molecular biology, and it may also help explain some confounding d
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 09, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
New trial involving stem cells to treat a gain of function mutation cured some patients, but killed others.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 05, 2017
Immunology
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), a pathogenic species of bacteria that kills nearly two million people worldwide every
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 02, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Research investigating how brown fat impacts metabolism has been hampered by the lack of a good model.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 14, 2017
Health & Medicine
Age-associated B cells (ABCs) were discovered in 2011 to be phenotypically and functionally unique cells common in the s
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 08, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Scientists have developed a new method to make bones transparent. The technique, they say, will enable researchers to be
...
APR 27, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Bone marrow transplants are often considered to be the last resort treatment, because the procedure could have the nearl
...
APR 19, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers found that a common ingredient in many junk foods may be directly contributing to osteoarthritic joint degen
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 16, 2017
Videos
Bones are complicated tissues in our bodies. They vary in size and shape, and even density. Thus when patients are stric
...
APR 11, 2017
Immunology
An overwhelming majority of cancer deaths are in some way connected to metastasis even though the immune system is rathe
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 08, 2017
Health & Medicine
The power of potassium goes beyond bananas and leg cramps; multiple potassium-rich foods including sweet potatoes, avoca
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 07, 2017
Videos
Blood cancers, which include leukemia and non-Hodgkins lymphoma can be difficult to treat because they start at the very
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim