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Thu Aug 28

• Preventing Osteoporosis, Bone Loss, Hip Fractures & Degenerative Disk Disease.

Wed Aug 27

• Proton pump inhibitors & osteoporosis: May be an increased risk in long-term use.

Tue Aug 26

• How Important Is Vitamin D and How Should You Get It?
• Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency May Lurk in Exclusively Breastfed Babies. Breast-feeding is excellent and may need supplementatio n with vitamin D drops.: Physicians have known for more than a century that exclusive breast-feeding may be associated with vitamin D deficiency and rickets, and that the condition is easily prevented and treated with inexpensive vitamin drops or cod liver oil. But doctors are reluctant to say anything that might discourage breast-feeding . Now some researchers are also linking vitamin D deficiency with other chronic diseases like diabetes, autoimmune disorders and even cancer, and there have been calls to include blood tests of vitamin D levels in routine checkups.
• Medical News: Bone Density of Hip Connected to Breast Cancer Risk After Menopause - in Hematology/Onc ology, Breast Cancer from MedPage Today

Mon Aug 25

• Top 10 Myths About Vitamin D - Health - redOrbit

Fri Aug 22

• The Sharpe Chefs: A Sharpe themed cookery book; all profits go to the National Osteoporosis Society. A second volume is in production
• Sistema e-once noticias Internet

Thu Aug 21

• How Rheumatoid Arthritis causes bone loss: Experiments showed that increased TNF alpha levels dramatically decreased the levels of two key factors, Smad1 and Runx2. Both Smad1 and Runx2 signaled to increase the number of bone-building osteoblasts, but only if Smurf1 was present to pass on the signal from TNF alpha.

Wed Aug 20

• Arch Intern Med -- Abstract: The Risk of Fracture Following Hospitalizatio n in Older Women and Men, Aug 11/25, 2008, Gardner et al. 168 (15): 1671: Hospitalizatio ns, particularly multiple admissions, are very common in elderly individuals and are strongly associated with an increased risk of hip and other types of fracture. Hospitalizatio ns present opportunities to take measures to reduce the risk of fractures.

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