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 –...
February 25, 2018
Treat to Target of NO NEW FRACTURES. How do we find that target? DXA >-2.5 is a start. Fragility fractures increase new fracture risk. FRAX adds many more risk factors to the...
February 16, 2018
Our goal is NO NEW FRACTURES. Cancellous (spongy, like the ends of the drumstick) bone should be a strong latticework of struts called trabeculi. Clinical Osteoporosis, an increased fracture risk,...
February 9, 2018
Our Target is NO NEW FRACTURES. The original goal by DXA was a T-score of -2.4 or better. But age is a huge factor in actual fracture risk. The fracture risk...
January 31, 2018
Treat to Target means aiming for NO NEW FRACTURES. As discussed last time, the original target was to maintain Bone Mineral Density (BMD) at the level first tested. 25 years...
June 11, 2017
University of Wisconsin hosts biennially the Bare Bones of Osteoporosis Care Symposium. This year the Wisconsin Bone Club followed the symposium. Felicia Cosman, MD from Helen Hayes in New York was the guest...
April 17, 2017
The National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) and the International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) are meeting together later this week. This will be my 10th attendance at each group. They are...
April 5, 2017
So how do you find out what aspects of your bone health are pretty good already, what will be easy to fix, and what will take some real work? Start...