For decades, the first-line treatment for osteoporosis was a type of medication called antiresorptive agents, which work by slowing down the rate of bone loss. Now, though, theres a newer treatment ...

(Reuters Health) - Women with osteoporosis who take drugs to help avoid fractures still need to have their bone density monitored, a Canadian study suggests. Researchers who studied more than 6,600 ...

Their findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, suggest that commonly used osteoporosis drugs could slow or halt aneurysm progression. Currently, surgery is the only definitive ...

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that two osteoporosis drugs (etidronate and tiludronate) may combat diseases caused by iron accumulation in the body. In ...

LOS ANGELES - With the launch of the first prescription osteoporosis medication 15 years ago, millions of Americans with the bone-thinning disease began taking the drugs and never looked back. But now ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has added a boxed warning to the label of the osteoporosis drug denosumab (Prolia) about increased risk for severe hypocalcemia in patients with advanced ...

A research team from the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has found that nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates (NBPs), a ...

A $7 million study beginning this summer at Wake Forest University and Wake Forest University School of Medicine will help determine whether a combination of resistance training plus ...

October 30, 2008 (San Francisco, California) — Teriparatide prevents bone loss and increases bone mineral density (BMD) over the long term in patients taking glucocorticoids, such as prednisone, ...

Researchers have provided the molecular explanation for why some osteoporosis drugs offer protection against COVID-19. The study, by researchers at the University of York, builds on work conducted by ...

An experimental drug has successfully reduced hip and spine fractures in the two largest patient populations at risk for osteoporosis — postmenopausal women and men being treated for prostate cancer — ...

Researchers at Jinan University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, reported on the discovery of a new category of phthalide compound in female ginseng (Angelica sinensis), one of which ...