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Osteoporosis

Could Diabetes Be in Your Bones? Link Between Metabolic Disease, Bone Mass; Breakdown Of Bone Keeps Blood Sugar In Check

July 22, 2010 News & Research

Our bones have much greater influence on the rest of our bodies than they are often given credit for, according to two new studies in the July 23 issue of Cell, a Cell Press publication. Both studies offer new insights into the interplay between bone and blood sugar, based on signals sent via insulin and a bone-derived hormone known as osteocalcin.

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Side Effects Explained: Why Common Drugs Can Lead To Broken Bones

June 9, 2010 Asthma Research

New research helps to explain why some commonly used drugs come with a serious downside: They up your odds of breaking a bone. The drugs in question, glucocorticoids (e.g. cortisone and prednisone) and the insulin sensitizer rosiglitazone work through entirely different mechanisms as therapies for inflammatory diseases and diabetes respectively…

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Calcium Supplements: Too Much Of A Good Thing?

June 4, 2010 News & Research

Negative health effects linked to taking too much supplemental calcium are on the rise, according to a commentary appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN).

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NASA Studies Find Omega-3 May Help Reduce Bone Loss

May 17, 2010 Inflammation

NASA-sponsored studies have found that omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil may play a role in mitigating bone breakdown that occurs during spaceflight and in osteoporosis. Ongoing research for decades has looked for ways to stop bone density loss in astronauts.

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Potential Treatment For Bone Death In The Hip From Osteonecrosis

May 4, 2010 Asthma Research

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found a potential new treatment for osteonecrosis, or the death of bone tissue, in people who are treated with steroids for several common medical conditions. There are currently no treatment options for people with this debilitating disease.

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Muscle And Bone Diseases Affect Each Other, According To New Theory

April 29, 2010 Cardiovascular Research

Traditionally, doctors and clinicians thought diseases that affect muscles or bones affected those areas specifically. For example, bone diseases only affect bones, or muscle diseases only concerned muscles. But recent evidence supports the notion that…

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For Osteoporosis Patients, Exercise Pill One Step Closer To Reality

April 8, 2010 News & Research

For osteoporosis patients unable to exercise, help may be on the way. That’s because scientists have discovered precisely how mechanical stress, such as exercise, promotes new bone growth. This opens the door to entirely new therapies that can trick bones into thinking they are getting a workout.

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Does Calcium Supplementation Increase Cardiovascular Risk?

March 10, 2010 News & Research

Calcium supplementation is widely used for the prevention of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women and in men. While there has been ongoing debate regarding its effectiveness in fracture prevention, the underlying assumption has been that,…

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Inhibiting Serotonin In Gut Could Cure Osteoporosis

February 8, 2010 News & Research

An investigational drug that inhibits serotonin synthesis in the gut, administered orally once daily, effectively cured osteoporosis in mice and rats reports an international team led by researchers from Columbia University Medical Center, in the Feb. 7 issue of Nature Medicine. Serotonin in the gut has been shown in…

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Customer Pleased With OsteoPhase

January 6, 2010 Osteoporosis

…my bones were becoming stronger and healthier. I was ecstatic and continued using OsteoPhase and FemmePhase for the next two years. So here we are, four years after the original diagnosis, and my third bone density scan has revealed that I have successfully reversed the osteopenia, and my bones are healthy and normal…

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X-Rays Help Predict Permanent Bone Damage From Bisphosphonates

December 30, 2009 News & Research

Breast cancer patients, individuals at risk for osteoporosis and those undergoing certain types of bone cancer therapies often take drugs containing bisphosphonates. These drugs have been found to place people at risk for developing osteonecrosis of the jaws (a rotting of the jaw bones). Dentists, as well as oncologists, are…

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Value Of Drugs For Pre-Osteoporosis Exaggerated, Experts Warn

December 28, 2009 News & Research

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 in the British Medical Journal. The authors believe that this represents a classic…

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