Osteoporosis increases the risk of fractures, particularly hip fractures, which can raise the one-year mortality risk in older people by two to five times. On the “Health 1+1“ program, Kuo-Pin Wu, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Older men have a similar reduction in hip fracture risk with osteoporosis treatment as women. Researchers said ...

Osteoporosis is a disease in which the amount and quality of bone deteriorate, making fractures likely even from minor ...

Tired of stiff hips, nagging pain, or that creeping feeling that your bones aren’t as strong as they used to be? You’re not alone, hip osteoporosis affects millions, especially women over 40, and it ...

Osteoporosis weakens bones and makes them more likely to break. The disease affects about 10 million Americans over age 50, ...

A new cohort study finds that only 6 percent of treatment-naive patients hospitalized with non-traumatic fractures receive ...

Researchers at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) have made a great leap toward predicting the risk of hip fracture among people with osteoporosis and evaluating the effectiveness of specific drugs to ...

A nationwide Finnish cohort study found that people with Parkinson's disease receive anti-osteoporosis medications at rates ...

The reduced risk for hip fracture associated with osteoporosis treatment did not differ between men vs women. Osteoporosis treatment demonstrates similar efficacy for preventing hip fracture among men ...

Despite the risk of subsequent fractures in patients with osteoporosis, only approximately 20% of patients nationally receive the appropriate evaluation and treatment following a fragility fracture. A ...