Potential treatment found for debilitating bone disease in wounded soldiers and children
Sunday, April 3, 2011 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
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 formsone that appears in children and is congenital, another that strikes wounded military personnel and surgery patients and is triggered by severe injuries and wounds.