The research team also found that hip fracture was 2.1 times more likely in children born to mothers taller than 1.6m (5 ft 4 in) than in children whose mothers were shorter than 1.5m (4 ft 11 in).
The tea partiers who want to hack away at defense as much as they do at earmarks are going to fracture the GOP coalition in Congress that still contains more than a few defense hawks.
In this process, after a well is drilled, pressurized water is injected into the well to fracture the shale and open fissures that enable natural gas to flow more freely out of the well.
In 2001 just one child was treated for a trampoline-related fracture at the Royal Berkshire, but in 2003 trampoline-related breaks accounted for more than one in 10 childhood fractures.
For more than six decades, gas companies have been using advanced technologies to hydraulically fracture and safely procure natural gas from up to two miles beneath the surface of the earth.