With increasing life expectancy, frailty and hip fractures will correspondingly increase in numbers, now at more than 300,000 fractures per year and projected to rise to more than 500,000 by 2040. Hip ...

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A personal trainer has warned of the dangers of “ego lifting” after she claims smashing a personal best in the gym left her hospitalized — when she snapped her right hip bone. Kristina Schmidt, 24, ...

Washington — Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, fractured his femur Saturday during a parade celebrating the UConn Huskies' NCAA men's basketball title, he said. Blumenthal said on ...