People often fracture or break the bones in their hands or wrists after traumatic injuries. Fractures can cause pain and swelling around the injury. Fractures can also change the position of your ...

Scientists have long linked the evolution of the human hand—unique for its lengthy opposable thumbs and dexterous fingers—to the rise of stone tools some 2.6 million years ago. These instruments, from ...

Your hand and wrist are some of the most important structures in your body, allowing you to physically interact with your surroundings. Unfortunately, they are also prone to injuries and other ...

The hand skeletons of women workers from the early days of industrialization reflect the diverse and unstable manual activities of their everyday lives. A team of researchers from Japan, Hong Kong and ...

We use our hands for almost every type of activity. But hands are complex, and when a part of them gets damaged, it can affect the whole hand. A metacarpal fracture is a break in one of the hand bones ...

Researchers have successfully created a robotic hand with bones, ligaments and tendons using 3D printing for the first time. A team from ETH Zurich in Switzerland were able to accomplish the complex ...

Prosthetic hands have come a long way, but many are still too unwieldy and impractical for everyday use. Beyond being incapable of a natural hand’s dexterity, most prosthetics can’t offer neurological ...

Fragments of bone from a human hand, arm and jaw were recovered from a box of ashes found in the home of a Cumberland County woman whose husband is accused of murdering her eight years ago, an FBI ...