As you age, your body deteriorates and your risk of disease and injury increases. Here’s a decade by decade guide to what you’re up against – and what you can do about it.
Articles on Osteoporosis
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Largest ever clinical study shows no benefit of vitamin D in preventing bone fractures.
Breaking a bone is never a good thing, but breaking a hip is particularly bad. One in three older adults who break a hip will die within 12 months of the injury.
Bones protect our insides, help us to move and even help make our blood.
Fracture risk is higher in older women than men, but in adolescence the reverse is true. These differences mean our approach to managing bone health for men and women changes across the ages.
More of us are labelled as sick with the constantly changing diagnostic cut-offs for diseases. Now an international expert panel has drafted a list of things to consider before setting new thresholds.
In 2012 the total cost of poor bone health in adults aged over 50 years was A$2.75 billion, and 64% of this cost was the direct cost associated with treating and managing fractures.
Rare diseases are yielding secrets about very common conditions.
Teriparatide is an injectable drug to treat severe osteoporosis, a condition where mineral loss causes the bones to become brittle and to fracture easily.
Scientists have identified a small number of people whose skeletons are extraordinarily break resistant, offering hints on how to make the bones of ordinary people stronger.
The creation of new “pre-conditions” is turning millions of people into patients across the globe.
As people with chronic conditions age or as their health changes, they sometimes need less medication. So when, should a person’s drugs be scaled down?
By forgetting that medicine postpones death rather than saving lives, we persuade ourselves it might somehow keep extending our life and come to view death as a failure of medicine.
A new odourless and easily administered treatment could help strengthen bones and prevent osteoporosis. Scientists tested…
A handheld device for diagnosing the early signs of osteoporosis could be available for clinical use within five years. Unlike…
A clash between supporters and detractors of calcium supplements for better bone health is leading to conflicting headlines, leaving the public unsure about whom to believe. Osteoporosis is estimated to…
Up to 2,000 of our 21,000 genes could affect our bone strength, research has found. In an experiment with mice, researchers…
A number of genes are strongly linked to the presence of osteoporosis and bone fractures, according to a new international…
The first in-human testing of a wireless medication dispenser was a success, according to a study published in the latest…
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