One of the tenets of neurosurgery is that the cranium, the bone that encases the brain, can fit only so…
Spinal Fractures Can Be Terribly Painful. A Common Treatment Isn’t Helping.
Injections of bone cement into fractured vertebrae fail to relieve pain any more than a placebo does, researchers found.
How Afghans Have Adapted to Life After Losing a Limb
Photographs of prosthetics made by Afghans who had to rely on their own ingenuity when they were wounded in war.
How Afghans Have Adapted to Life After Losing a Limb
Photographs of prosthetics made by Afghans who had to rely on their own ingenuity when they were wounded in war.
How Afghans Have Adapted to Life After Losing a Limb
Photographs of prosthetics made by Afghans who had to rely on their own ingenuity when they were wounded in war.
How Afghans Have Adapted to Life After Losing a Limb
Photographs of prosthetics made by Afghans who had to rely on their own ingenuity when they were wounded in war.
Lost and Found: The Homemade Prosthetics of Afghanistan
In 2012, a photographer visited a medical clinic that was filled with relics from a past when Afghans, wounded in…
Lost and Found: The Homemade Prosthetics of Afghanistan
In 2012, a photographer visited a medical clinic that was filled with relics from a past when Afghans, wounded in…
Three weeks in a cast may be just as good as six for healing ankle fractures
Wearing a cast or ankle support for three weeks may be no worse than the usual six weeks for healing…
Should we rename low-risk cancers?
Should we rename low-risk (‘indolent’) cancers in a bid to reduce anxiety and harm from unnecessary investigation and treatment?