An international team of researchers argues that the focus on drugs to prevent hip fractures is neither viable as a public health strategy nor cost effective. Taking a hard fall is scary, especially ...

Hip fractures are the most common injury due to falling in the elderly, representing 72% of all fracture costs. Not surprisingly, 90% occurred in people 65 and older. The physical, emotional and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Antiosteoporotic medications and screenings for bone fragility do little to prevent hip fractures among older ...

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 ...

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 in The BMJ this week. Professor Teppo ...

There is effective protection against hip fracture for the many elderly people whose skeleton is declining in strength, as a side effect of cortisone treatment. If patients receive the osteoporosis ...

Austin, Texas, USA (September 9, 2022) — Osteoporotic hip fracture, already a dangerous and debilitating problem for older men and women worldwide, is poised to become a far more severe global ...

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 ...

Since the election, clinicians across the NHS have called on ministers to honour their promise of early diagnosis clinics for ...

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 ...

An estimated 255,000 fragility fractures occur annually in Türkiye, the equivalent of approximately 29 broken bones per hour. The cause is osteoporosis, a disease in which the skeleton becomes weak ...

Professor Teppo Järvinen and colleagues say drug treatment "can achieve at best a marginal reduction in hip fractures at the cost of unnecessary harms and considerable waste of monetary resources." ...