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  1. Mayo Clinic Minute: Exercise helps prevent bone fractures and falls

    Robert Wermers, an endocrinologist at Mayo Clinic, says many individuals with osteoporosis have a high risk of falling, especially with older age: Falls are ...

  2. Discovery's Edge: Before the Bone Breaks - Mayo Clinic News Network

    Sundeep Khosla, M.D.. Osteoporosis is a chronic disease that causes gradual bone weakening. Low bone density is one factor used to identify osteoporosis, and ...

  3. Mayo Clinic Minute: Osteoporosis is soft bones VIDEO AUDIO Jason Osteoporosis is often called “soft bones.” Bart Clarke, M.D

    The standard screening procedure for osteoporosis is a bone density test. Treatment is a combination of medication, adequate calcium and vitamin D intake, and ...

  4. Mayo Clinic Minute Exercise helps prevent bone fractures and falls Video Audio Graphic over older women and men in exercise

    will develop osteoporosis, according to the Centers for ... Robert Wermers, M.D.. Endocrinologist. Mayo Clinic. “Osteoporosis essentially is where you have a lack ...

  5. New tools to predict fracture risk - Mayo Clinic

    "Further, while the World Health Organization has defined osteoporosis as bone mineral density (BMD) at the hip or spine less than or equal to 2.5 standard ...

  6. Mayo Clinic Q and A: Finding the right osteoporosis medication

    DEAR MAYO CLINIC: The bisphosphonate drugs I take for osteoporosis aren't working in my case. My doctor has suggested a few alternatives. Any thoughts on ...

  7. Researchers report link between cells associated with aging and bone loss - Mayo Clinic News Network

    ... Osteoporosis Foundation. Bone is a living tissue that is constantly being broken down and replaced. Osteoporosis occurs when the creation of new bone doesn ...

  8. Osteoporosis - Doctors and departments - Mayo Clinic

    Fractures associated with this bone-weakening condition can be life-altering. Good nutrition, regular exercise and medications can help.

  9. Mayo Clinic Investigator Pushes for more Research on Osteoporosis Treatment

    If there's one thing he knows, it's the progression of therapeutic options for osteoporosis patients. Osteoporosis Treatment: Research Success, Patient Concern.

  10. Baby Boomers and Scoliosis: Osteoporosis Is Risk Factor - Mayo Clinic News Network

    Adults who had spine curvature as children can develop severe arthritis in the spine next to their old curves. In other cases, osteoporosis, or weakening of the ...