Armed with a Google search engine, one does not need to look far to determine how utterly bad a patient's prognosis could turn if whatever put that person in the hospital gets compounded with an infection. Heaping that problem onto an ailment always makes it worse: diabetes with infection, stroke with infection, bone fracture with infection. It is never good. If cancer ...
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Month: July 2015
Basic Bone Healing
Maybe you have broken a bone before and are curious about what happened inside the body while it was healing, or maybe you are studying for a test that covers bone healing in medical school or high school. For anyone in this situation, this course is quick review that covers the structure and function of bones and how they heal.
We all know what bone is, but not everyone...
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Get ready for a better synthetic bone regeneration material: P-15
If you were in the orthopedics business from the late 1990's through just recently, you saw the rise and fall of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMP's) on the commercial market. Their story differs somewhat depending on the specific products: those based on BMP-2 and those based on BMP-7 (aka OP-1). BMP-2 fared better than its close relative, but like any commercial product it'...
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