Bears may hold key to osteoporosis treatment
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 13:01
in Health & Medicine
All it takes is a few days of bed rest for human bones to start to weaken. Stretch that out many weeks, and we risk full-blown osteoporosis and its attendant woes of broken hips, wrists and vertebrae. Bears hibernate for months on end. Yet, when they wake up in spring, their bones are just as strong as before they settled down for their long winters nap.