Her team used a computer program she developed to identify the risk of broken hipbones in people with the bone disease osteoporosis.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Severe breaks may require an operation to hold the bone together with metal plates and screws.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Along with the bone damage there is a risk of infection in the open wound.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Ten patients in all were treated in a study with donated bone marrow.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

This happens with a bone that bends but does not break.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Despite the reports of sudden thigh bone fractures, Dr.Bunning says he would still give one of these drugs to a patient with osteoporosis.

VOA: standard.2010.03.14

Sandy Potter was jumping rope with children in her neighborhood when the bone in her thigh snapped.

VOA: standard.2010.03.14

Until that day in 2008 do, when he was diagnosed with a potentially fatal bone cancer, Bruce Feiler had been living a seemingly charmed life.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

"What we found was with one protein that we delivered in the micro-channels in the scaffolds, that was sufficient to regenerate the entire joint surface with cartilage and with bone and with blood vessels."

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Abshir Ahmed,52, has lived all his life along a stretch of the desert near the town of Docol, Scratching the bone-dry earth with his bare,calloused feet, Ahmed says the devastation that he and others are experiencing now is worse than anything they have ever been through before.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06