In the modern era of medicine, a 100-year-old man, Mr. S. C. Kapur, successfully underwent a hip replacement surgery in New ...

Osteoporotic or fragility fractures are common and contributing factors are the susceptibility to falls and the underlying osteoporosis. Fractures of the vertebrae, the hip and the distal radius ...

Dear Dr. Roach: Several months ago, I developed a case of a bigeminy heartbeat. My cardiologist prescribed metoprolol. At ...

Most authorities recommend treatment when the risk of a major osteoporotic fracture is greater than 20% or the risk of a hip fracture is greater than 3%. Your primary doctor is following the ...

Its estimated that by 2026 the number of hip fractures in India will increase significantly with around 600000 osteoporotic hip fractures occurring annually. According to studies hip bone ...

Patients have twice the risk of inpatient complications and mortality after having a second, contralateral hip fracture ...

one in three women and one in five men over the age of 50 will suffer an osteoporotic fracture. Moreover, it is projected that by 2050, the worldwide incidence of hip fractures will more than double.

In a cohort of older community-dwelling women, unfavorable sleep patterns were associated with cognitive impairment and higher dementia risk, according to data published in Neurology. “Sleep is ...