Conditions

A breast tumour is the most common malignant disease among women and, at the same time, one of the most treatable when it is found early.

A child bumps himself or gets angry about something, draws in air to cry, and then suddenly falls silent.

Ankles break in the most ordinary way: a foot turns over on a kerb, on ice, on the last step of the stairs.

The arm breaks more often than any other part of the body, and almost always in the same way: someone falls and puts a hand out at the last moment.

The collarbone is a thin curved bone running between the breastbone and the shoulder blade, and it is the only rigid strut holding the shoulder out away from…

A finger seems like a small thing, which is why finger injuries are the ones people most often put up with: caught in a door, struck by a ball, banged against…

A broken hip is a fracture of the top of the thigh bone, where the leg joins the pelvis. It is not only the narrow neck of the bone that breaks: right below…

Legs break in very different ways: hit by a car at a crossing, landing badly on a trampoline, falling down stairs, or simply running on hard roads for weeks…

The nose breaks more often than any other bone in the face: it sticks out, and the bones in it are thin.

Ribs break in thoroughly ordinary ways: a fall onto one side, a blow against the steering wheel, the edge of a bath or a door frame — and past sixty a fall…