Articles in Osteoporosis
It has been well understood that women with type 2 diabetes who take Avandia or Actos to control the disease are at a higher risk of bone fractures than diabetic men taking the same medications. …
Researchers at the University of Arizona (UA) have just released the findings of a study that explored the connection between bone density and breast cancer in post-menopausal women. In the study, which followed almost 10,000 …
Researchers at the University of Illinois have recently announced the findings of a study which compared the merits of a diet based on the currently recommended food pyramid and a diet based on lean meats …
A prestigious group of world-renowned experts on menopause have joined forces for a re-evaluation of the controversial use of hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) for healthy women experiencing distressing symptoms of menopause. Once hailed as a desirable …
The American College of Physicians has issued guidelines for performing bone mass density tests in older men, recognizing that “osteoporosis if not just a woman’s disease”. Lead author, Amir Qaseem, MD, PhD, MHA concludes: “Older …
A class of popular diabetes drugs has been found to be associated with an increased risk of fractures of the hip and wrist in insulin-resistant patients. The class of drug, insulin-sensitizing thiazolidinediones, makes up about …
A study published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that postmenopausal women who take hormone therapy have an increased risk of stroke. The study, which was conducted by Brigham and Women’s Hospital …
Healthy women facing menopause should seriously consider the consequences of taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT). One major study was stopped in 2002 after women randomly assigned HRT were found to be at greater risk …
Hormone therapy is commonly used to help treat women with menopause. However, this therapy can increase their risk of having abnormal mammograms and breast biopsies and may decrease the effectiveness of both methods for detecting …
The idea that chronic pain should be considered a disease and be specifically treated as such is what a pain management expert in Australia is proposing.
