May 17, 2020
If you fracture, your risk of a second fracture within a year is 3 to 5 times as great! If that first or second fracture is a hip, you have...
May 10, 2020
Diet and exercise are not always enough to prevent fractures. Medications are needed if you are fracturing or BMD is falling despite your best efforts. We have many posts about when...
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...
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, 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...
September 24, 2017
The FDA approved Tymlos (Abaloparatide) in June for use in women diagnosed with osteoporosis. Unfortunately most patients are unlikely to obtain insurance coverage for Tymlos until January or February 2018. Tymlos...
June 19, 2017
Treat to Target has been standard for chronic diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes for decades. These are chronic diseases, more common as we get older, that we can control...
April 10, 2017
“I want to treat my bone health entirely naturally – without any “artificial” medications.” That might be possible if you are among the less than half of all women not destined...
January 14, 2017
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...