Several companies are developing similar bone mending products for small bone fractures but with no load-bearing characteristics.
Champion didn't have any bone fractures or injuries to his internal organs.
Egypt's deputy health minister, Dr. Hisham Shiha, said on Egyptian TV that many of the casualties resulted from asphyxiation or bone fractures.
The research found thin people were less protected by body fat so had an increased risk of bone fractures, which could raise their injury rate.
Cliff Rosen, past president of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, agreed that there isn't much data showing calcium-and-vitamin-D supplements can prevent bone fractures.
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Rehma was also found to have multiple healing bone fractures.
The bottom-line from the FDA analysis of these studies is that bisphosphonates are important drugs for skeletal health, but that the benefits of these drugs in preventing bone fractures may peak after 5 years.
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More recently some trials have shown that supplements can boost bone density or reduce fractures and falls in the elderly.
But some of those who suffer such fractures have exactly the same bone density as people who do not.
They included two punctured lungs, 26 rib fractures and a broken collar bone.
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That could yield new sales for a drug that now has been used merely as supportive care to prevent fractures in patients with cancer bone metastases.
In the past, it was widely believed that a decrease in bone density was the main cause of osteoporotic fractures.
But there is a minority view, that they are not real fractures at all but merely indicate anomalies in bone growth.
The child's injuries included 26 rib fractures, a broken arm, a broken collar bone, and two punctured lungs.
The 26 year-old was found to have abused her son, then aged two, by violently twisting him and causing him multiple fractures, but she says her family history of brittle bone disease was wrongly ruled out.
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This finding suggests that hip fractures might arise from a mismatch between the genetic drive for bone growth and the environmental influences which affect the mineralisation of bones during childhood.
Dr Jon Tobias, a consultant senior lecturer in the rheumatology department at Bristol Royal Infirmary and advisor to the National Osteoporosis Society, said a drug that could stimulate bone growth, rather than simply arrest deterioration, should be more effective at preventing fractures.
That, combined with the constant pounding Ware endured through an entire season of basketball, may have created small stress fractures in the tibia and fibula bones in his lower leg, causing his bone to snap when he took a bad step.
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