While osteoporosis is much more common in adults over age 60, it can strike younger people too. In fact, according to the ...

Despite being known as an ‘old women’s disease’, osteoporosis poses a significant threat to men’s health, with one in five at ...

Furthermore, follow-up BMD is the factor most strongly predictive of fracture risk in men and women, new findings from Norway reveal. Whether rate of bone loss constitutes an independent risk ...

Many men remain unaware of their osteoporosis status ... such as glucocorticoids (used to treat asthma or rheumatoid ...

And so far, these drugs, the oldest of which is Fosomax, which was approved in 1995, seem to be remarkably well tolerated and very safe at bone in the overwhelming majority of people who take them.

However, strength training and impact-type exercise, such as running and jumping, can attenuate age-related bone loss. A new feature of this study was that ... This sub-study involved 299 men and ...