Items Tagged ‘osteoporosis’
March 10, 2017
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Emily Blahnik Wall Street Journal Zika Linked to Heart Problems by Betsy McKay […]
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October 7, 2016
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Emily Blahnik New York Times Men Get Osteoporosis, Too by Jane E. […]
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July 22, 2016
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Emily Blahnik New York Times Fecal Transplants Can Be Life-Saving, but How? […]
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September 25, 2015
Mayo Clinic in the News Highlights
Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Laura Wuotila with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Editor: Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Carmen Zwicker MPR Ceiling cracks: Women step into Mayo Clinic’s top academic […]
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March 31, 2010
Osteoporosis not just a problem for women
Here’s a quick quiz: True or false, osteoporosis is something only women have to worry about? The answer is false. While it’s true that bone fractures due to osteoporosis are much more common in women, Mayo Clinic Dr. Shreyasee Amin says men also get brittle bones. “Approximately 13 percent of men over […]
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October 22, 2009
McAllister: Light shed on celiac disease, osteoporosis
Scientists have long known that people with celiac disease have a higher than average risk for developing osteoporosis, but until recently the link between the two conditions was poorly understood. Celiac disease is caused by an immune system reaction to gluten, a natural protein found in grains such as wheat, barley and rye… […]
Tags: celiac disease, osteoporosis
August 31, 2009
Amgen is likely to receive FDA approval for denosumab, its newbiologic bone-loss drug, but it may be a hard sell against cheaper generics Wall Street has set an exceptionally high bar for Amgen’s new bone-loss treatment. Shares of the world’s largest biotechnology company have jumped 30% since May, to 62, largely on news of […]
Tags: osteoporosis
August 24, 2009
Recent studies have challenged the effectiveness of a popular kind of back surgery, yet many patients – and their doctors – say vertebroplasty works. The minimally invasive surgery, known as vertebroplasty, is under scrutiny after two recent studies in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded the popular treatment to ease pain from back […]
Tags: osteoporosis, vertebroplasty
August 13, 2009
Bone-preserving drug passes tests in men, women
A new drug increases bone density and reduces the number of fractures in men fighting prostate cancer and in elderly women with bone loss, researchers report in two studies appearing August 11 in the New England Journal of Medicine… “This certainly goes a long way toward fulfilling the criteria the FDA uses,” says Sundeep Khosla, […]
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August 12, 2009
Experimental Drug Helps Treat Osteoporosis
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 — according to two major studies published online on Aug. 11 by the New England Journal of Medicine. The new compound, denosumab, is being reviewed […]
Tags: denosumab, osteoporosis