A fracture is the medical term for a broken bone. It occurs when the physical force exerted on the bone is stronger than the bone itself. Your risk of fracture depends, in part, on your age.

Over the roughly 3-year follow-up period, 86 patients (2.98%) treated with semaglutide and 128 patients (4.43%) who underwent a sleeve gastrectomy experienced a fracture. The findings underscore a ...

Cannabidiol (CBD) and cannabigerol (CBG) might someday help bone fracture patients manage their pain, according to a Penn State study. In a study in mice, the researchers unexpectedly found that ...

In the study of more than 1.6 million adults, the scientists found that a bone fracture was associated with a loss of one to seven years of life, depending on gender, age and bone site.

While the loss of bone density is inevitable with aging, a new study has shown that just small changes to improve skeletal health can have a huge impact on the prevalence of hip fractures.

A recent analysis found poor survival rates after bone fractures in older adults, with fewer than a third of men and half of women surviving five years after a fracture. Published in JBMR Plus ...

Sure, if you're hit by a car, and you fracture, maybe you've got great bones, but you were hit so hard, that anybody would have fractured. The way to find that out is to get a bone density test.