You may have a dislocated finger if your finger bone appears dislodged or crooked. This condition is typically painful and requires medical attention. Trying to pop it back in yourself can cause ...

In a significant leap forward for regenerative medicine, researchers at Texas A&M have discovered a single protein, FGF8, ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Robert Smith, 38, relies on the ability to grip and pinch materials in his job as an ironworker. When his middle finger was crushed by a heavy steel beam in November 2017, there ...

Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford dislocated his middle finger at the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint and tore ligaments there. What does this mean? For those of you who don't know which ...

A group of anthropologists finally put back together a Denisovan finger bone unearthed in 2009, and it pointed to something surprising. Denisovan fingers looked more like ours than like Neanderthals’, ...

Those arms and legs start forming fast. Here's when they show up – and how your baby's limbs grow each week in the womb.

A tiny bone fragment could provide crucial information about the fate of Amelia Earhart, the legendary pilot who disappeared 73 years ago while flying over the Pacific Ocean in a record attempt to fly ...

The meat-eating dinosaur Dilophosaurus wetherilli has eight major injuries (indicated by the stars), twice as many as Sue, the Tyrannosaurus rex at the Field Museum in Natural History in Chicago.

A man whose finger bones looked mysteriously "eaten away" on an X-ray was actually a textbook case for doctors who have seen what high levels of a hormone called parathyroid hormone can do to the body ...