Osteoporosis News and Research

Latest Osteoporosis News and Research

Advances in robotic spine surgery

1. Please could you give a brief outline of robotic spine surgery and its recent history? Robotic spine surgery is very new, less than 10 years old. There are only 10 hospitals in the US offering it and we are the second hospital in California to offer this technology.

15 Jun 2012

Osteoporosis self-reports unreliable measure for case defintions

Self-reports of incident osteoporosis in middle-aged and older women should not be relied on for a case definition, suggest study findings showing poor-to-moderate validity for this measure.

14 Jun 2012

ORMC offers bronchial thermoplasty for severe asthma

Doctors at Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) are delivering heat directly to the source to treat patients with severe asthma - a respiratory disease that causes the airways in the lungs to narrow, making it difficult to breathe.

13 Jun 2012

IOF publishes first issue of newly revised ‘Progress in Osteoporosis’

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) has published the first issue of the newly revised Progress in Osteoporosis (PIO).

13 Jun 2012

NASA-inspired analysis could anticipate bone loss

Measuring naturally occurring calcium isotopes in urine could indicate whether someone is experiencing bone loss long before traditional imaging methods are able to, say US researchers.

12 Jun 2012

$Extreme elderly account for two-thirds of osteoporotic hip fractures$

Extreme elderly account for two-thirds of osteoporotic hip fractures

Study findings presented at the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism, held in Berlin, Germany, show that nearly two-thirds of American osteoporotic hip fractures occur among individuals aged 80 years or older.

11 Jun 2012

New liquid stable homocysteine kit from Randox

The new liquid stable homocysteine kit from Randox provides a convenient and accurate method for the determination of homocysteine in human serum and plasma. Homocysteine is a potential indicator of a number of disease markers and should therefore be an integral part of a laboratory’s testing menu.

From Randox Laboratories Ltd. 11 Jun 2012

What are vitamins?

Most people have heard of vitamin C and its effects upon the body; but how much do you know about other vitamins? How many even are there? And what do they all do?

8 Jun 2012

Study calls for more aggressive management of osteoporosis in the extreme elderly

A new American study presented today at EULAR 2012, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism, calls for more aggressive management of osteoporosis in the extreme elderly as the true impact of osteoporotic hip fractures in those aged 80 years or older is unveiled.

8 Jun 2012

Aldosteronism linked to poor bone health

Primary aldosteronism is associated with low bone mass, increased prevalence of osteoporosis, and vertebral fractures, Italian research shows.

7 Jun 2012

Bayer announces updated data from radium-223 dichloride Phase III trial on CRPC

Bayer HealthCare today announced updated data from the pivotal Phase III ALSYMPCA (ALpharadin in SYMptomatic Prostate CAncer) trial for its investigational drug radium-223 dichloride in men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and symptomatic bone metastases.

6 Jun 2012

Reumofan Plus may have harmful pharmaceutical ingredients, warns FDA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers that Reumofan Plus, marketed as a "natural" dietary supplement for pain relief and other serious conditions, contains several active pharmaceutical ingredients not listed on the label that could be harmful.

2 Jun 2012

$Gene variant linked to postmenopausal fracture risk$

Gene variant linked to postmenopausal fracture risk

Women who carry a variation in a gene involved in blocking bone morphogenic proteins are more likely to have fragility fractures than women without the variant, Greek research shows.

1 Jun 2012

Glucocorticoid steroids in intelligent medicine specifically hits relevant cells

Scientists at Aarhus University, Denmark in collaboration with the biotech company Cytoguide now publish a key to use glucocorticoid steroids in a kind of intelligent medicine that specifically hits the relevant cells. Data are based on rodent studies but if this principle is translated to humans it may greatly improve todays hazardous treatment with this type of potent steroids.

1 Jun 2012

International conference: 'Preventing Overdiagnosis'

Overdiagnosis poses a significant threat to human health by labeling healthy people as sick and wasting resources on unnecessary care, warns Ray Moynihan, Senior Research Fellow at Bond University in Australia, in a feature published on bmj.com today.

31 May 2012

Revised QFracture tool shows enhanced risk-prediction

Researchers have developed a new algorithm that may improve upon existing methods for identifying patients at high risk for fracture in primary care.

30 May 2012

FRAX tool ‘resistant’ to osteoporosis treatment effects

Osteoporosis therapy does not invalidate the use of the World Health Organization’s fracture risk assessment system for fracture prediction, study findings indicate.

30 May 2012

Overdiagnosis: harming the healthy

Overdiagnosis poses a significant threat to human health by labelling healthy people as sick and wasting resources on unnecessary care, warns Ray Moynihan, Senior Research Fellow at Bond University in Australia, in a feature published on bmj.com today.

30 May 2012

Link between women's health issues and gum disease

Women, keep those toothbrushes and dental floss handy. A comprehensive review of women's health studies by Charlene Krejci, associate clinical professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, has shown a link between women's health issues and gum disease.

30 May 2012

New technique more sensitive in detecting bone loss than X-ray method

Are your bones getting stronger or weaker? Right now, it's hard to know. Scientists at Arizona State University and NASA are taking on this medical challenge by developing and applying a technique that originated in the Earth sciences. In a new study, this technique was more sensitive in detecting bone loss than the X-ray method used today, with less risk to patients. Eventually, it may find use in clinical settings, and could pave the way for additional innovative biosignatures to detect disease.

29 May 2012