Machine learning may be able to identify older adults most at risk for major adverse cardiovascular events by assessing abdominal aortic calcification in vertebral fracture assessment images, ...

To date, there have been no randomized trials studying the use of different antiplatelet therapies or anticoagulation against antiplatelet therapy in known cases of extracranial vertebral artery ...

Intravenous zoledronate (Reclast) administered once every 5 years reduced the incidence of morphometric vertebral fractures in early postmenopausal women, a randomized trial showed. Over 10 years ...

Amphibians are the first vertebrates to have a neck, even if it is short & stout. Linked with this advance is a more flexible cranial-vertebral joint. In modern amphibians (Lissamphibians), there is a ...

Less than half of patients had undergone bone monitoring, suggesting a need for better clinical guidance and management of ...

Our vertebral fractures research programme is led by Prof Emma Clark. The main aim is to improve the identification and management of older people with osteoporotic vertebral fractures. A major ...

Vertebral artery (VA) dissection caused by swinging a golf club is extremely rare, and the mechanism of the dissection has not been elucidated. A 39-year-old man suddenly felt sharp neck pain and ...

Patients with vertebrobasilar stenosis are currently being enrolled in two other randomized studies; the Vertebral Artery Stenting Trial (VAST), 8 for stenting of intracranial or extracranial ...