June 20, 2014
50% of women over age 50 will suffer a fracture due to Clinical Osteoporosis. More than 3/4 of them will have a DXA score of “osteopenia”. DXA is not the...
May 30, 2014
Patients who have already fractured may need osteoporosis medications. Adding fractures to a low BMD or T-score on DXA makes the Clinical Osteoporosis more severe and increases Fracture Risk. This...
May 17, 2014
Fracture Risk is the elephant in the room. Fractures can keep you from doing what you want for weeks or months. Fractures can put you in a Nursing Home, sometimes...
April 23, 2014
Tomorrow I am at the 2014 National Osteoporosis Foundation meeting. Actually the name “National Prevent Fractures Organization” would better explain our goals. We don’t care about Osteoporosis as much as...
March 27, 2014
If you have a Heart Attack or a Stroke (Brain Attack), you don’t say it was an accident. You check out your heart or blood pressure to see what is...
March 8, 2014
“You are entering a Data-Free Zone” That was unfortunately the messasge at the joint meeting of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) and the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) last month. ...
March 3, 2014
You can Prevent Fractures by being a stork for 5 minutes every day. How? you ask. Take Control Naturally with an exercise that improves balance and strength in your ankle...
February 27, 2014
The International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) met last week. Our society has been dedicated to properly evaluating DXA to determine Bone Mineral Density (BMD) and t-score. Now ISCD is taking...
February 21, 2014
Dr Neil Binkley took this line from politics in his address to the International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) and International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) joint meeting yesterday. Dr Binkley is known...
February 17, 2014
Increasing numbers of patients are reluctant to consider pharmaceuticals for their Osteoporosis and Fracture Risk. You may agree with that. If you do you MUST be prepared to Take Control...