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A study of a largely male veteran population reinforces observations in younger women and underscores concerns about osteoporosis in men.

Calculator uses readily available clinical factors and will soon be freely accessible.

October 20 marks World Osteoporosis Day, a global campaign to raise awareness and prevent fractures due to weakened bones.

Extension trial gives insight into treatment order for a little-studied population of premenopausal women.

Increased fracture risk seen in short-term studies may have been due to hypovolemia or osmotic diuresis, resulting in falls, rather than an effect on bone.

From a persons twenties to their eighties, the increased risk of fracture after a prior fracture may not be significantly different.

A Mosgiel man who beat his partner, causing multiple fractures to her face, has had a year erased from his prison term after a successful appeal. Hirini...

In the absence of a randomized comparison trial on fracture risk reduction, researchers use negative control outcome to compare the two drugs.

Molly Giles was standing in her kitchen one spring night in 2019, musing about whether to do the dishes or leave them until the morning, when a bone in her left leg snapped and she crashed to the ground, breaking her hip. "I passed out, and I'm pretty sure I would have died if my partner hadn't been there and called 911," the Northern California novelist recalls.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Gile...

Although the findings are suggestive, they don’t definitively pin blame on tricyclic antidepressants alone in directly leading to fractures.