New Bone Growth Pens developed in Australia... another five years before trials then maybe we wont have need for replacements.

This is in our newspapers and on TV here but the only place I can find it on the net without subscribing to our newspapers was with this link...

womenindia.org/new-pen-like...

Even though this article doesn't mention it, the other newspapers say it repairs acutely damaged bone and cartilage and will be great also for arthritis suffers and cancer victims as well as traumatic injuries. It certainly sounds like something we might benefit from.

If they do trials in 5yrs and then take a few more for the data to be analyzed, it will be a while before we can use it but the Uni of Wollongong in NSW and the St Vincents Hospital in Victoria are working on it now with great results so far. Imagine repairing bone cartilage, muscle and skin... sounds pretty good to me.

[wiliby]

That's amazing! Sounds very futuristic

Thanks for posting, love reading about updates like this.

[earthwitch]

Can't imagine how that would work for spondyloarthritis though, where the problem is too much bone growth at sites of inflammation. Or for that matter how it works for RA? Might be useful for fracture healing though. Will be interesting to see how they apply these findings

[Hidden in reply to earthwitch]

This article doesnt say it but I think what they were saying in other news here is that they can shave of excess bone growth ie spurs/osteophytes for OA/Spondy and where it has eaten into the cartilage and bone in OA and RA it can be repaired by the pen so that they sculpt the bone shape back into its original form. Fingers crossed, any new treatment research is welcome.