What are some treatment modalities we can comfortably recommend to patients with osteoporosis and patients with osteoporotic fractures? Supplementation with vitamin D3 is certainly something that we ...
The study predicts that the total cost of care associated with osteoporotic fractures will be $95 billion in 2040. The additional costs of osteoporosis and subsequent bone fractures topped $6.3 ...
A new report provides striking details about the toll osteoporotic fractures take on the individual and at a societal level in the United States, showing that as many as 2 million Medicare ...
Recommendation 1 strongly advises clinicians to offer pharmacologic treatment to patients with a densitometric diagnosis of osteoporosis or those with fragility fractures (i.e. a clinical diagnosis of ...
(BPT) - In the U.S. alone, someone breaks a bone as a result of osteoporosis every 20 seconds. [1] Breaks that occur as a result of osteoporosis, a chronic disease caused by excessive bone density ...
Pelvic fractures in older adults often result from low impact trauma due to weakened bones, frequently linked to osteoporosis. Treatment options for older adults range from nonsurgical methods such as ...
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., June 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Amgen Inc. (Nasdaq: AMGN) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Prolia ...
Osteoporosis screening in an older woman. Postmenopausal women have little awareness of osteoporotic fracture risk and poor understanding that a fragility fracture may be indicative of osteoporosis ...