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Teriparatide outperforms alendronate in treating steroid-induced osteoporosis

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A recent study determined glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (OP) is now treatable with Teriparatide, a synthetic form of the human parathyroid hormone. Researchers found patients with glucocorticoid-induced OP who were ...


Hormone promises to keep joint injuries from causing long-term osteoarthritis

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

An existing osteoporosis drug is the first ever found to prevent cartilage loss from osteoarthritis following injury to a joint, and may also regenerate some cartilage that has been lost to osteoarthritis, according to an ...


Scientists discover way to jumpstart bone's healing process

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Rarely will physicians use the word "miraculous" when discussing patient recoveries. But that's the very phrase orthopaedic physicians and scientists are using in upstate New York to describe their emerging stem cell research ...