Assessing a key aspect of bone architecture, for which clinicians can now be reimbursed under Medicare, can significantly improve the ability to predict a patient's risk for bone fracture. Although ...

For someone suffering from brittle bone disease, life is fraught with complications. The slightest misstep, a seemingly harmless fall or even one false move can be all it takes to leave them with a ...

Tooth loss and bone degeneration are problems that modern medicine still struggles to fix. Data from the National Bone Health Policy Institute shows that 10 million Americans over the age of 50 have ...

Gain-of-function mutations in fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) genes are known to cause a range of skeletal disorders, such as craniosynostosis and chondrodysplasia, which severely affect ...

Like the rest of you, your bones need more attention as the years pass. Some 10 million Americans over age 50 have the weak and brittle bones of osteoporosis—and an additional 44 million have ...

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Zoledronic acid 5 mg/100 mL bottle; solution for IV infusion. Paget’s disease of bone is characterized by greatly increased and disorderly bone remodeling. Excessive osteoclastic bone resorption is ...