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

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 ...

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

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.

FSH levels were independently associated with an increased risk for hip fracture among older men and women regardless of bone density.