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(BBC 14/11/2009)
Each week Strictly Come Dancing thrills millions with its celebrity glitz and nifty footwork. Doctors now want to persuade armchair fans to learn a few moves themselves - to help protect their bones. Fronted by Strictly dancer Erin Boag, a DVD produced for the International Osteoporosis Foundation hopes to use the ballroom dance moves to help protect against the bone thinning disease. Boag worked with doctors to develop the easy-to-follow programme, based on the the waltz, quickstep and rumba.
Women not getting bone treatment
(BBC 01/11/2009)
Women who have had a fracture are not getting treatment to prevent them having future bone breaks, a Cambridge University study suggests. An audit covering 1,600 women presenting to a specialist clinic with a fracture showed that 31% had suffered a previous break. Yet only 28% had been put on recommended bone-protective drugs. A GPs' leader said more could be done to find women at risk, but side-effects stopped some patients taking the drugs.
Why I have lost a foot in height
(Daily Express 20/10/2009)
WHEN John Lowes sits down for dinner, his chair is raised by four inches. If it weren't, the former police officer, who once stood an impressive 6ft 2in, would be at the same eye level as his eight-year-old granddaughter Molly. More than three decades of osteoporosis have robbed John of his height; he now stands at under 5ft. The effect on his spine put his heart out of alignment. In 1979 he had his lower ribs removed as they were starting to turn inwards into his pelvis.
Row over access to bone drugs
(BBC 08/09/2009)
Thousands of women in England and Wales could suffer broken bones each year because of a lack of treatment, according to a leading physician. Professor David Reid, from University of Aberdeen, said postmenopausal women may find they they are denied access to effective osteoporosis drugs. He said current National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance is too restrictive. NICE said its guidance should enable women to get high quality care.
Cannabis 'may' guard against osteoporosis
(The Scotsman 13/08/2009)
CANNABIS could protect bones from weakening in later life, scientists said today. A study on mice showed that while properties of the plant can reduce strength in the young, it may guard against osteoporosis. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh said a molecule in the body, which can be activated by cannabis, is "key" to the development of the bone disease. It was not previously known whether the results would be positive or negative.
(BBC 28/06/2009)
11-year-old Lauren on how she protects her bones. She has a good diet - plenty of calcium and no fizzy drinks; exercises regularly, playing rugby and netball, and is a keen walker. Despite being aged just 11, Lauren knows the benefits of good bone health and is determined to build up as good a bone mass as possible.
Osteoporosis monitoring 'a waste of time'
(The Scotsman 24/06/2009)
MONITORING bone density in older women taking osteoporosis drugs is a waste of time and money, scientists have claimed. The bone disease is a major problem for older women in particular, because bone density falls as oestrogen levels dwindle during the menopause. Some guidelines say postmenopausal women's bone density should be monitored, although experts have questioned whether the costly process can really show how a patient is responding to treatment by osteoporosis drugs.
Osteoporosis court battle 'win'
(BBC 19/02/2009)
A company making a drug for osteoporosis has won a High Court case against the NHS drugs advisory body. Servier, who make bone drug Protelos, say the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence unfairly restrict access to the treatment. The judge ruled NICE had failed to be as transparent as it could have been in drawing up the guidance.
'Unfair' NHS ban on brittle bone drug goes to court
(Daily Mail 19/01/2009)
The NHS rationing body faces a court challenge today. NICE says doctors can only prescribe alendronate, the cheapest drug for the bone-thinning disease, even though one in four women suffer crippling side-effects or do not respond to it. Those who cannot tolerate it must wait untreated until their condition worsens by up to 60% before they are allowed alternative medication.
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