Patients with hip fractures face a postcode lottery of care depending on which hospital they are treated at, a new study suggests. The proportion of patients who die within 30 days of fracturing their ...

Testosterone gel may help older women reduce dangerous visceral fat and improve their recovery from hip fractures.

Aging doesn’t just add fat—it redistributes it in risky ways, pushing more into the abdomen where it can harm health.

Hip fracture surgery outcomes in skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities are tied to the patient’s length of stay, according to a new study has found. Investigators analyzed outcomes in hip ...

Elderly patients with higher self-reported levels of psychological resilience experienced faster walking speed and farther walking distance after hip fracture surgery, researchers report. The results ...

Compared with exercise alone, combining exercise training with testosterone gel application did not result in longer 6-minute walk distances (6MWDs) in older women with a recent hip fracture repair ...

Findings compared with exercise therapy alone or usual care among older women. (HealthDay News) — Topical testosterone therapy does not significantly improve functional outcomes beyond supervised ...

Hip fractures, often a result of a fall, are the most serious type of osteoporotic fracture because they are accompanied by considerable pain, loss of muscle and bone strength, reduced mobility and ...

For a frail, older adult, the risks skyrocket when the waits are longer than 48 hours. In B.C. the trend is going in the ...

This digital solution was developed as part of a European project led by the University of Granada (UGR) and the Andalusian Health Service (SAS). ActiveHip+ is a multidisciplinary intervention ...

Findings compared with exercise therapy alone or usual care among older women. HealthDay News — Topical testosterone therapy does not significantly improve functional outcomes beyond supervised ...