Team uses 3-D printing to produce human cartilage, offering a potent new research tool and advancing treatment opportunities for osteoarthritis and battlefield injuries In a significant step... Read more
New research involving Irish scientists could lead to effective new treatments for the most common type of arthritis within the next five years. Scientists based at NUI Galway are part of an... Read more
Researchers at the University of Delaware have developed a “smart” hydrogel that can deliver medicine on demand, in response to mechanical force. Over the past few decades, smart hydrogels h... Read more
St George’s, University of London research has found that a drug normally given to osteoporosis sufferers could provide effective pain relief to patients with knee and hip osteoarthri... Read more
A daily dose of cholesterol-busting statins has been shown to more than halve the chances of getting the crippling disease. British researchers believe the breakthrough could pave the way fo... Read more
A team of researchers led by a Boston University Biomedical Engineer has developed a new joint lubricant that could bring longer lasting relief to millions of osteoarthritis sufferers. The n... Read more
A study by researchers from Hospital for Special Surgery has shown that platelet-rich plasma (PRP) holds great promise for treating patients with knee osteoarthritis. The treatment improved... Read more
Since 2005, arthritis has been ranked as the leading cause of disability in the United States A medication already approved to build bone mass in patients with osteoporosis also builds carti... Read more
Joint injury can result in irreversible damage of cartilage Joint injury can result in irreversible damage of cartilage which, despite treatment and surgery, often eventually leads to osteoa... Read more