For the past several quarters, including the fiscal third quarter whose results Medtronic announced last week, we have heard the same refrain from the large Minnesota-based medical device maker. That ...

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Primal posture: Ubong tribesmen in Borneo (right) display the perfect J-shaped spines. A woman in Burkina Faso (left) holds her baby so that his spine stays straight. The center image shows the ...

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Scheuermann’s kyphosis is a spinal condition that causes your back to take on a rounded shape as you grow. It results in a hunched look and is one of the most severe forms of kyphosis — a group of ...

For as long as she can remember, Marina Sanaki-Matsumiya wanted to understand the mechanisms shaping the bones that form our skeletons. Born with a genetic skeletal disease, the developmental ...