For decades, the primary method to treat factures has been to use metallic hardware such as plates, screws and pins or a total joint prosthesis combined with standard bone cement known as Poly-Methyl-Methlacrylate (PMMA).

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The biotechnology firm announced that a much-awaited study of its bone drug Xgeva (also known as denosumab, and sold for osteoporosis as Prolia) prevented prostate cancer from spreading to the bone in patient whose levels of prostate-specific antigen are rising.

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The first, an adult man known as the Berlin patient, was cured as a result of a 2007 bone-marrow transplant.

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He hasn't played since, and the Knicks said his injury had progressed to a fractured bone at the outside of his left foot, otherwise known as a Jones fracture.

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Another is Dinosauria International, which has returned to the Wyoming territory where the Bone Wars were mostly fought, in order to explore a Jurassic mud trap known as the Dana Quarry.

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The most serious bunions are treated with a joint-fusion surgical procedure known as a lapidus bunionectomy, in which the first metatarsal and the next bone back, a cuneiform, are fused together.

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