Skeletal system

According to a study, those with low bone density may be more likely than those with high bone density to get dementia.The findings of the study published in the online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study does not prove that low bone density causes dementia....

“It’s so well preserved you can see the individual scales, we can see some tendons and it looks like there’s going to be skin over the entire animal”

A skeleton discovered in a remote corner of Borneo rewrites the history of ancient medicine and proves amputation surgery was successfully carried out about 31,000 years ago, scientists said on Sept. 7.

Previously, the earliest known amputation involved a 7,000-year-old skeleton found in France, and experts believed such operations only emerged in settled agricultural societies.

Imagine that you have been in the intensive care unit of an Attica hospital for weeks, unable to stand on your own two feet, and with only sporadic visits from family members. Every one of your visitors wears a white gown over their clothes, along with protective overshoes, a cap and a sanitary mask - not due to fears they might be contaminated but in order not to transmit any bacteria to you.

The Institute in Belgrade will receive RSD 263 million to build a new sterile block where bone marrow transplants will be done, Vucic announced, and said that the money will be on the hospital's account on Friday.

Over 720 people have sought help in Pirogov in the last 24 hours, reports Darik. 

"Over 720 people have gone through the Pirogov Emergency over the last 24 hours, and those who have sought help in traumatology are nearly 120, of which 15 are left to treat," said Maria Poirazova, spokeswoman for the hospital, quoted by the national radio .

Some 500 people each year in Turkey break their necks, either dying of respiratory failure instantly or suffering spinal cord injury and mostly becoming wheelchair-bound as a result of diving headfirst into shallow waters, with the figures reaching thousands of people when added with world figures.

Doctors in the southern province of Gaziantep have created a new pair of ears, for a patient who was born missing external ears, from his mother's rib cartilage, in first-of-a-kind reconstruction surgery, Doğan News Agency reported on May 22.

First came the obsession with thigh gaps, then there was the bikini bridge, ab cracks, and thighbrows. The latest body trend to emerge is “rib-cage bragging,” which sees women flaunting their protruding chest bones on social media.

Luciana Wulkan is a seven year old girl who lives a happy life in Bolton, England. Like other seven-year-olds she is a member of the Rainbows, loves going to school and seeing her friends and really, really wants to go horse riding.