This week we are going to discuss something which is quite common, yet it occurs for a variety of reasons—the vertebral compression fracture (VCF). Vertebral compression fractures occur when the ...

Dr. Keith Roach, M.D. DEAR DR. ROACH: An almost 90-year-old friend has osteoporosis. In January, she collapsed while walking home. Now, five months after having a compression fracture of her vertebra, ...

A neurosurgeon at Comanche County Memorial Hospital is introducing two procedures to the hospital and the area to help patients dealing with back pain.

Prognostic Significance of MTOR Pathway Component Expression in Neuroendocrine Tumors The median follow-up was 11.5 months (range, 0.03 to 113 months). The median and mean overall survival rates were ...

An Osaka Metropolitan University team has used stem cells extracted from adipose, the body's fatty tissue, to treat spine ...

This Grant will Advance the Company’s Pre-Clinical Research to Demonstrate an Improvement to the Current Standard of Care for Spine Fractures. LOWELL, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RevBio, Inc., announced ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My mom had a compression fracture to her L2 vertebrae due to osteoporosis. Her head leans forward constantly. It has created difficulty for her when looking forward while walking and ...

UCSF orthopedic surgeons are studying the long-term effects of a new spine repair surgery for osteoporosis sufferers. Kyphoplasty, a minimally invasive procedure developed in the San Francisco Bay ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by doctors, meant for physicians and other healthcare professionals as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this 12-part journey ...

Daxton Bennick suffered a vertebra compression fracture in a Lap 1 crash in the Round 13 East / West Showdown feature at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The crash brought out ...