Potential treatment found for debilitating bone disease in wounded soldiers and children

Promising new research reveals a potentially highly effective treatment for heterotopic ossification (HO), a painful and often debilitating abnormal buildup of bone tissue. HO comes in two main forms -- one that appears in children and is congenital, another that strikes wounded military personnel and surgery patients and is triggered by severe injuries and wounds. An animal study by developmental biologists shows that a drug that interrupts a signaling-nuclear protein pathway can prevent HO.

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