Investigators at the University of Sheffield and the University of Leeds, both in the United Kingdom, have discovered that a drug currently used to protect bones against damage also has positive effects in extending the survivability rates of elderly breast cancer patients.
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26 September 2011
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Research carried out in Sweden demonstrates that the belief people have that calcium will reduce their risk of bone fractures later on in life is false. Experts found the same bone fracture risks in people with high and low doses of the mineral in their bones. In the paper, the team also argues that consuming more th... |
25 May 2011
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The use of calcium supplements in managing osteoporosis should be reassessed as soon as possible. It could be that the drugs boost older women's risk of developing adverse cardiovascular events. In other words, it could be that these supplements are making this subgroup of the population more likely to develop h... |
20 April 2011
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A new study carried out by Margaret L. Gourlay, MD, MPH of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, concluded that older women with normal T-scores do not need to be screened for bone mineral density for a 10-year period.Ever since 2002, the US Preventive Services Task Force recommends that... |
18 October 2010
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A newly discovered protein called the “Sprouty” could help improve treatment for two major diseases - obesity and osteoporosis, as well as for other illnesses like diabetes, osteoarthritis and heart disease.For the research, scientists from Maine studied two groups of transgenic (specially bred to have s... |
1 September 2010
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Older people commonly take calcium supplements to fight or slow down osteoporosis. A scientific study published today on bmj.com associates these supplements with a high risk of heart attack. The authors of the study suggest that a better management of the calcium supplements in countering osteoporosis is necessary.D... |
30 July 2010
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Between drinking because it's “what everybody else does” and not doing it because it damages health, most people follow a pattern: have a drink while you're young and quit later. Scientists at Loyola University Health System have studied this phenomenon and experimented on rats. They concluded t... |
13 July 2010
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Many people around the world suffer from a fairly common condition called osteoporosis. This translates in English into brittle bone disease, and the name of the condition implies that patients have very weak bones that are easily broken from efforts which would otherwise have been considered moderate. The affliction... |
4 May 2010
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Though it may seem a bit like a stretch, a new Spanish study has found that women who regularly drink moderate to low amounts of alcohol have stronger bones than those who rarely touch alcohol. The study, which was conducted on more than 1,700 women, is detailed in the latest issue of the respected journal Nutrition,... |
17 August 2009
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If you're already been diagnosed with osteoporosis, don't panic - it doesn't mean that you'll have to miss out on most of the fun parts of your life, it simply means that you will have to pay extra attention to what you eat, and when you eat it.The best moment in the day for an extra dose of calci... |
10 June 2008
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In this modern age of speed and constant change, our increasingly hectic lifestyles are beginning to take their toll on us in ways we would never have expected 20, even 10 years ago. The diseases we once attributed to old age - osteoporosis among them - are now starting to affect younger men and especially women arou... |
13 May 2008
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For a long time, women have dismissed strength training and labeled it a "guy thing". You know the clich - a steamy room at the gym filled with heavy, complicated and diabolic-looking machinery, guys wearing little more than short shorts and sweaty tank tops, measuring the size of each other's muscles and showing... |
7 May 2008
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