March 2, 2020
Iowa Bone Club 2020 will meet at Allen College in Waterloo, IA on Friday 24 April. This is the only meeting in Iowa each year which is dedicated solely to...
January 26, 2020
Take Control Naturally. Get your calcium in foods! Chart of common foods high in Calcium in mg (adapted from the USDA website):
January 11, 2020
Why do some patients, who are already on good osteoporosis preventing or treating medications, still have a falling Bone Mineral Density? Are the medications not working? Not as well as...
December 8, 2019
National Bone Health treatment goals are changing for those patients with high fracture risk. Simply preserving bones already at a too high fracture risk never made much sense to this...
September 18, 2019
American Society for Bone & Mineral Research Annual Meeting 2019 starts tomorrow. Jon Hennings, ARNP and I will be there hoping to see and hear the latest studies about the...
September 3, 2019
FDA approved clinical trials are a well established way to gain access to medications not yet available to the general public. Most people have heard of individuals taking experimental treatments...
August 8, 2019
We now have a third anabolic medication to build new bone. Evenity is really different from the other anabolics, Forteo (teriparatide) and Tymlos (abaloparatide). Forteo and Tymlos are daily shots based...
June 10, 2019
Copy for BTrue Magazine July 2014 Issue Top 10 reasons to check your Bone Health 10. It’s all downhill after age 30. You reach your maximum bone mass...
January 21, 2018
Once again we have been treated to statisticians mushing together multiple disparate previous studies to “prove” that calcium alone, or vitamin D alone, or both together in one of many...
October 22, 2017
Iowa Bone Club met for the third time this past Friday, 20 October. Ritu Munjal, MD was the program chair and hosted the meeting at PCI in Cedar Rapids. Great program...