Broken bones don’t always heal perfectly Peter Dazeley/Getty By Yvaine Ye Broken bones also appreciate some warmth. A biodegradable bone implant can stimulate bone regrowth using heat, doubling the amount of bone tissue regrowth in mice. Our bones naturally rebuild themselves after small fractures. But with severe traumas, they can’t always fully grow back on… Read More »
An American fitness blogger has posted a confronting photo of herself to her more than 1.2 million Instagram followers, holding removed breast implants she got seven years ago — a move that was encouraged by her ex-husband to make their love life “spicier”. Sia Cooper, the 29-year-old behind the blog Diary of a Fit Mommy,… Read More »
A small removable plastic implant resembling a tiny piece of dry spaghetti is capable of delivering sustained levels of the drug tenofovir, researchers told last month’s HIV Research for Prevention conference (HIVR4P 2018) in Madrid. The drug delivery capability of the implants was tested on rabbits and will now advance into tests on dogs and… Read More »
Modern dental implants have been around since the 1960s, but has only proven their worth in recent years. Before they became popular, dental implants used to be incredulously expensive and out of reach for the majority. Back then, it was easier and cheaper to just get dentures than deal with the complexities of dental implants.… Read More »