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A bone scan looks for changes in your bones. Before the test you have a radioactive tracer injection into your bloodstream. You have this through a tube (cannula) into a vein in your hand. It takes 2 ...

Most people who have cancer cells in their bones don't have primary bone cancer. They have cancer cells that have spread into the bone from a cancer elsewhere in the body. This is called secondary or ...

Regardless of the reason, the world’s love of the Medusa tattoo doesn’t seem to be waning. “I’ve tattooed around 30 Medusas over the past six months,” says Rose. “I also have seven ...

If you’re someone who’s at risk for developing osteoporosis, you’re probably well-accustomed to receiving regular bone density tests. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA or DXA ...

The skeletal system includes your bones, ligaments that attach bone to bone, and cartilage that provides padding between your bones ... It contains the sacrum (made up of four bones) and coccyx (the ...

The species, dubbed the “bone collector” by the University of Hawaii scientists who discovered it, hides from its natural predator by wearing a silk case strewn with the body parts of other ...

Scientists in Hawaii have discovered a new, rare and bizarre species of carnivorous, bone-collecting caterpillars. After hatching, the tiny insects live almost their entire lives in the web of a ...

Your mind is turning to mush like the arthropod guts that feed it. Or, more likely, there’s a bone collector in your midst. A newly discovered moth species spends its caterpillar days squatting ...

What Is Bone Marrow Edema? Bone marrow edema (BME) is when fluid builds up in your bone marrow. Your doctor may call it bone marrow lesions. The most common locations for it are your: Hip Knee ...

The usual treatment for a fracture of the tailbone (coccyx) with persistent pain (coccygodynia ... can be very helpful as the pain isn’t all from the broken bone and can also affect the bladder ...