However, education on knee anatomy, how injuries happen ... muscle tears, and bone fractures. The femur (thigh bone), tibia (shin bone), and patella (kneecap) make up the bones of the knee.

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Myles Grimmett had a bone transplanted from his leg into his arm when he was 5 years old in a groundbreaking surgery that ...

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The bones are a common place for it to spread. The cancer may show up in your spine, pelvis, ribs, or the upper part of your thigh bone, called the femur. Pain. It can be a dull ache or sharp and ...

Myles Grimmett (left) after having surgery; (right) Playing on his school's basketball team.

More than 66 million years ago, a “tyrant lizard king” ruled western North America: the fearsome predatory dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex. But how large was this monarch’s royal family?

When authorities realized they had unearthed three female thigh bones from the Wests’ yard, they realized they had at least one more victim. At first, when a detective asked if there was anyone ...