NICE advises adding quick spine checks to routine bone scans to detect hidden vertebral fractures earlier in individuals with ...

NICE is recommending that quick spine checks are added to routine bone scans to help spot hidden fractures earlier and prevent serious complications. Around 70% of spine fractures caused by ...

A group of clinician experts in Canada has published a new interactive online tool designed to help clinicians assess individual patient risk of fragility fractures and weigh the pluses and minuses of ...

Nicholas Harvey, President of the International Osteoporosis Foundation, describes the urgent need to address the burden of ...

A new Fracture Risk Assessment Tool that includes bone microarchitecture measures outperformed the current tool that uses ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Severe mental illness may be associated with decreased bone mineral density, fragility fractures and ...

—Even after something as serious as a hip fracture, nearly two-thirds of patients in a recent study failed to keep their follow-up appointment for an osteoporosis evaluation with an outpatient, ...

The study included 44,338 matched pairs of patients who were treated with bisphosphonates, denosumab, raloxifene, or teriparatide and those who did not receive any of these treatments. HealthDay News ...

Should healthy people be screened to help reduce their risk of fragility fractures? A new interactive online Fragility Fracture Decision Aid for shared decision-making can help clinicians and patients ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by doctors, meant for physicians and other healthcare professionals as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this 12-part journey ...

Spine checks will be added to routine bone scans on the NHS to find hidden fractures. The measure could help osteoporosis ...