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Duke Health: Protein Prevalent in Older People Could Be Key to Healing Bones
September 19, 2019
DURHAM, North Carolina, Sept. 19 -- Duke Health issued the following news release:

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- Identifying the protein, which interferes with bone healing, could lead to new therapies

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Broken bones are a bigger deal the older you are: even after they've healed, the bones of older people are weaker and more likely to re-fracture. And since more than 6 million Americans break a bone each year, figuring out how to help people heal better would ma . . .

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