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During National Osteoporosis Awareness Month, Spotlight Is On Innovative Minimally Invasive Procedures To Help People With Osteoporosis
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsOsteoporosis is a major public health threat for an estimated 44 million Americans, 80 percent of whom are women. The resultant weakening of bones can lead to compression fractures of the spine causing severe pain, deformity, loss of height, immobilization, and decreased quality of life. One in two ...
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Wed May 2009
New Book Summarizes Current Knowledge On The Biology Of The Vertebrate Skeleton
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsThe cells, tissues, and organs that compose the skeletal system provide a supportive yet flexible framework that allows vertebrates to withstand earth's gravity yet remain mobile. Current knowledge about the vertebrate skeleton, especially recent research on skeletal development from embryo to adult ...
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Wed May 2009
Battle Of The Sexes Spills Into Orthopedic Supply Aisle
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsFor a man with a minor knee, wrist or ankle sprain, the solution has traditionally been fairly easy: a trip to his local pharmacy to pick up a brace or support, and his symptoms are alleviated. Similar ailments in women, though, are not so easily addressed: The one-size-fits-all approach that many ...
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Wed May 2009
DHEA Hormone Replacement Increases Bone Density In Older Women
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsTaking a DHEA supplement combined with vitamin D and calcium can significantly improve spinal bone density in older women, according to a new study from a Saint Louis University scientist and his colleagues at Washington University. "The results of our study are very promising. Similar studies hav ...
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Wed May 2009
CVS Caremark Data Confirms Improved Outcomes For Women With Osteoporosis Who Are Adherent To Therapy
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsData released by CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) indicates that 87 percent of women 18 years and older with osteoporosis, who were taking a drug therapy to treat the disease, did not experience a fracture during the two-year study period. The CVS Caremark data also found that those women with osteoporosis ...
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Wed May 2009
When To Get Your Bone Density Measured - That Is The Question
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsA new study provides doctors with guidelines on when to repeat bone mineral density (BMD) tests for their patients. International clinical guidelines on the matter are hazy, with different practices followed in different countries. For a serious condition like osteoporosis, affecting millions, i ...
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Wed May 2009
University Of Michigan Experts Say Proper Nutrition Essential For Bone Health
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsMusculoskeletal conditions, such as arthritis and joint pain, are the number one reason for physician visits and account for at least 50 percent of all chronic conditions in people over the age of 50 IN THE UNITED STATES. With more than one in four Americans having a musculoskeletal condition requir ...
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Wed May 2009
NIST Issues First Reference Material For Tissue Engineering
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsThe National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) last week issued its first reference materials to support the new and growing field of tissue engineering for medicine. The new NIST materials are samples of a typical tissue scaffold material that have been measured and documented by NIST fo ...
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Wed May 2009
X-Rays Help Predict Permanent Bone Damage From Bisphosphonates
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsBreast 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, a ...
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Wed May 2009
IOF Launches Educational Slide Kit To Enhance Understanding Of FRAX®
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsA new teaching aid, the FRAX® Slide-kit, has been launched by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) in cooperation with the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, University of Sheffield, UK. The educational slides can be downloaded free of charge from ...
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Wed May 2009
What Are The Advantages Of Minimally Invasive Surgery For Hip Replacement?
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsWith the evolution of new surgical methods, better anesthesia techniques, and computer navigation systems, surgeons are now able to reduce recovery times after hip replacement. The effects of such methods and technologies allow the surgeon to operate with greater precision and less injury to the bod ...
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Wed May 2009
Link Discovered Between Hot Flashes And Lower Bone Density In Women
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsFINDINGS: UCLA researchers and colleagues analyzed data for 2,213 women between the ages of 42 and 52 who participated in the bone sub-study of the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation to determine whether women with vasomotor symptoms (VMS) - which include hot flashes and night sweats - had lo ...
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Wed May 2009
New Target In Fight Against Osteoporosis, Periodontitis Identified By Dental Researchers
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsOsteoporosis and periodontitis are common diseases whose sufferers must cope with weakness, injury and reduced function as they lose bone more quickly than it is formed. While the mechanism of bone destruction in these diseases is understood, scientists have had less information about how bone forma ...
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Wed May 2009
Progress In Osteoporosis: Free Online Journal
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsNo time to keep abreast of the most important osteoporosis-related research? Progress in Osteoporosis, the free online journal published by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) on http://www.iofbonehealth.org/pio provides concise summaries of new research published in the preceding three ...
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Wed May 2009
Rexin-G Controls Tumor Growth And Improves Survival In Chemotherapy-Resistant Sarcoma And Osteosarcoma: Phase I/II And Phase II Studies, ASCO 2009
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsEpeius Biotechnologies announced the results of two related studies using Rexin-G, a tumor-targeted anti-cancer agent designed to seek-out and destroy metastatic cancers that have spread throughout the body. While Rexin-G is currently approved for the treatment of all solid tumors in the Republic of ...
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Wed May 2009
What Is The Difference Between Hip Resurfacing And Total Hip Replacement?
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsIf hip resurfacing is an option, the surgeon will simply reshape the damaged surface of the femoral ball and then cover it with a round metal cap. The limitation here is that the procedure only works for bone that is not too damaged by arthritis. Generally speaking, surface replacements are not perf ...
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Wed May 2009
MDC Researchers Unravel Key Mechanism In Pathogenesis Of Osteoporosis
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsOsteoporosis, or bone loss, is a disease that is most common in the elderly population, affecting women more often than men. Until now, it was not clear exactly how the disease develops. Researchers of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, have now elucidated ...
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Wed May 2009
POZEN Receives Decision From AstraZeneca To File PN 400 NDA
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsPOZEN Inc. (NASDAQ: POZN) reported that AstraZeneca has made the decision to have POZEN file the New Drug Application (NDA) for PN 400 with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). POZEN continues to target a mid-2009 NDA filing and expects to receive a milestone payment of $10 million ...
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Wed May 2009
Hot Flashes May Prompt Closer Look At Bone Health
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsA new study, published in the journal Menopause, found postmenopausal women with vasomotor symptoms-which include hot flashes and night sweats-had lower bone mineral density in the spine and hip. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues analyzed data from over two t ...
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Wed May 2009
Skull Fusion Disorder Of Infants: UC Davis Bioengineer Receives Hartwell Grant
Categorie : Bones / OrthopaedicsWith support from a foundation that champions cutting-edge medical research, a biomedical engineer at UC Davis will start work this month on developing a new treatment for infants born with disorders that cause the sutures of their skulls to prematurely fuse together. The new approach is base ...
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Wed May 2009