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Researchers Discover Protein That Appears To Regulate Bone Mass Loss, The Cause Of Osteoporosis
March 5, 2007 An estimated ten million Americans suffer from osteoporosis, and another 34 million Americans are at risk of developing the disease. The basic mechanism behind osteoporosis involves an imbalance ... > full story -
Insights Into Osteosarcoma In Cats And Dogs May Improve Palliative Care
March 2, 2007 Researchers at the University of Illinois have found that a molecular pathway known to have a role in the progression of bone cancer in humans is also critical to the pathology of skeletal tumors in ... > full story -
Children With Cancer Risk Fragile Bones
February 26, 2007 Physicians caring for children with cancer should be on the lookout for signs of bone fragility caused by disease and treatment, according to a new ... > full story -
Are Scientists Making Progress In Being Able To Regenerate Bone Tissue?
February 20, 2007 In an article in PLoS Medicine, Gert Meijer (University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands) and colleagues discuss what kind of progress there has been in restoring the function of diseased or ... > full story -
Calcium And Vitamin D Supplements Don't Affect Heart Disease Risk, Study Suggests
February 20, 2007 Calcium/vitamin D supplementation neither increased nor decreased heart disease and stroke risk in generally healthy postmenopausal women over seven years of use, according to a study published in ... > full story -
Good Vibrations: Aging Bones May Benefit From A Good Shaking
February 20, 2007 While running and jumping are some of the best ways to maintain or improve bone strength and help prevent fractures, they aren't the safest activities for the frail, elderly or physically impaired. ... > full story -
Men Warned Of Osteoporosis Problems
January 30, 2007 Osteoporosis isn't just a woman's problem. The bone-wasting disease can severely afflict men, ... > full story -
Researchers On The Path To Building Bone
January 30, 2007 University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have developed a method to increase bone density in mice, a development that might have future benefit for humans in the treatment of osteoporosis and ... > full story -
New Technique Uses Pubic Bone For Grafting
January 28, 2007 A new technique using the pubic bone as a source of bone for grafting may avoid the complications of harvesting bone from the iliac crest, or "hip bone," according to a report in the ... > full story -
Researchers Urge Monitoring Of Bone Health During Chemotherapy
January 12, 2007 In laboratory tests on mice, researchers found that a medication often used to reduce toxic side effects of chemotherapy induced bone loss and helped tumors grow in bone. So the researchers at ... > full story
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