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...
November 14, 2019
Recently I wrote about our participation in a clinical trial offering the anabolic Tymlos (Abaloparatide) to men. Now we have been approved for participation in another Tymlos (Abaloparatide) trial –...
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...
February 27, 2019
True in the 1960’s – even more true today. We expect to live into our 80’ and 90’s. We expect to enjoy those extra years. We can, with a little...
February 27, 2018
Our goal is NO NEW FRACTURES. Therefore, Treat to Target means a FRAX score of <20% for “major osteoporotic” and <3% for hip fracture. Alternately, T-score of better than -1.5 if...