Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “There is abundant evidence that men are not adequately screened for osteoporosis, and those with osteoporosis ...
Hip fractures are a common and costly problem in older adults, and a new study finds there is a substantial variation in mortality, health outcomes and treatment measures among different countries. An ...
This month’s interview discusses and emphasizes the significant societal problems hip fractures represent and specific areas our profession should address on behalf of our patients. I asked my ...
According to results from a recent study, 71% of patients who sustained a hip fracture were not informed that they have a bone weakening disease known as osteoporosis as a contributing reason for ...
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 ...
St. Vincent’s Medical Center, a Hartford HealthCare hospital in Bridgeport, earned a “center of excellence” designation from independent accreditor The Joint Commission for its hip fracture treatment, ...
The current focus on drugs to prevent hip fractures is neither viable as a public health strategy nor cost effective, argue an international team of researchers. Professor Teppo Järvinen and ...
More than 250,000 hip fractures occur every year in the U.S., often resulting in hospitalization, surgery, nursing-home admission, long-term disability, and/or extended periods of rehabilitation.
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Oct. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) today announced results from real-world data in Asia, Europe, Oceania, and North and South America on the temporal trends in hip ...
An international group of researchers led by the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), and including Douglas P Kiel, MD, MPH, Director ...