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Make or break time for osteoporosis treatment
Mar 10, 2008 |
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Women who do not comply with treatment instructions for osteoporosis or who do not respond to treatment are more likely to suffer further fractures, which seriously affects their quality of life.
WHO tool helps target bone treatment
Dec 03, 2008 |
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Better targeted, more cost-effective osteoporosis treatment could soon be a reality worldwide. A new method for determining more accurately at which point someone needs further diagnostic tests, or when immediate treatment ...
Poor treatment for common vertebral compression fractures
Apr 23, 2009 |
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The advice and treatment given to patients with vertebral compression fractures is not satisfactory. A thesis presented at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that the majority of patients still ...
Wrist fracture patients less likely to be evaluated for osteoporosis
Oct 01, 2009 |
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A study published in the October 2009 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery suggests a disconnect between the way wrist-fracture patients and those with a spine or hip fracture are managed and evaluated. The s ...
New link found between osteoporosis and coeliac disease
Oct 07, 2009 |
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People with coeliac disease may develop osteoporosis because their immune system attacks their bone tissue, a new study has shown.
Value of drugs for pre-osteoporosis exaggerated
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 18, 2008 |
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A series of recent scientific publications have exaggerated the benefits and underplayed the harms of drugs to treat pre-osteoporosis or “osteopenia” potentially encouraging treatment in millions of low risk women, warn experts ...
Osteoporosis care at risk in the United States
Nov 12, 2008 |
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The reimbursement cuts run contrary to existing federal initiatives already in place to increase fracture prevention efforts and improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis.
Nation's hip fracture rate could drop 25 percent with aggressive osteoporosis prevention
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Aggressively managing patients at risk for osteoporosis could reduce the hip fracture rate in the United States by 25 percent, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the November issue of the Journal of Bone & ...
Healthy bones program reduces hip fractures by 37 percent
Nov 04, 2008 |
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Proactive measures can reduce hip fracture rates by an average of 37.2 percent -- and as much as 50 percent -- among those at risk, according to a study conducted by Kaiser Permanente Southern California. The study was published ...
When to get your bone density measured -- that is the question
May 12, 2009 |
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A new study provides doctors with guidelines on when to repeat bone mineral density (BMD) tests for their patients.
Vertigo linked to osteoporosis
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 23, 2009 |
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People who have osteoporosis are more likely to also have vertigo, according to a study published in the March 24, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Landmark observational study aims to improve osteoporosis care standards worldwide
Apr 10, 2008 |
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Nearly 60,000 women aged 55 years and older have enrolled in a landmark, multi-national study that will focus on the management of osteoporosis across the globe. Launch of the Global Longitudinal Registry of Osteoporosis ...
New cause of osteoporosis: Mutation in a miroRNA
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Many biological processes are controlled by small molecules known as microRNAs, which work by suppressing the expression of specific sets of genes. Xiang-Hang Luo and colleagues, at Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South ...
The Medical Minute: What is osteoporosis? Why now? Why me?
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Osteoporosis comes from a Latin term which means "holes in the bone." In reality it is a skeletal disease characterized by low bone mineral density and structural deterioration of bone, leading to bone weakness and increased ...
Fabled 'vegetable lamb' plant contains potential treatment for osteoporosis
Oct 14, 2009 |
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once believed to bear fruit that ripened into a living baby sheep — produces substances that show promise in laboratory experiments as new treatments for osteoporosis, the bone-thinning disease. That's the conclusion of a ...
