Case study: How Lynn halted her menopausal bone loss
It’s long been held that menopause is a time of rapid bone loss. This oft-cited generalization has now been ...
Who needs a medical osteoporosis workup?
Here at the Center for Better Bones, we often say that it is difficult to solve a problem you do not fully ...
ABC News report: Fosamax can cause needless fractures
I hate to say "I told you so," but for years here at the Center for Better Bones, I've said that Fosamax and ...
3 tips to help heal fractures
Breaking a bone can stop us all in our tracks, no matter what age we are. But particularly for women in their ...
Fosamax and breast cancer
Last December, many news outlets were reporting the latest finding to come from the 2002 Women’s Health Initiative ...
Repeat fractures vs. first fractures
The nine million osteoporotic fractures that occur worldwide each year give us reason for concern, and recently ...
A needless osteoporosis scare
Occasionally I like to share some of the interesting bone health cases I see at the Center for Better Bones. As ...
Worried about osteopenia? A holiday gift from NPR
If you've heard the term osteopenia, and especially if you happen to be one of the millions who've been ...
New IOM vitamin D recommendations — baby steps and missteps
You may have heard recently all the news stories that talked about the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) new ...
How do I know if I have a spinal fracture?
At the Center for Better Bones, I frequently see middle-aged women who have just received a bone density test and ...
How to change your fracture risk
Someone recently sent me a New York Times article I’d missed about the controversy over WHO’s FRAX tool. The ...
Another great reason to look at Vitamin D – it protects against flu!
There’s been so much information this fall about flu, particularly swine flu, that it’s hard to make sense of it ...
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