How Aging Undermines Bone Healing

Monday, January 19, 2009 - 23:14 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have unraveled crucial details of how aging causes broken bones to heal slowly, or not at all, according to an article in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. The research team also successfully conducted preclinical tests on a potential new class of treatments designed to "rescue" healing capability lost to aging.

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