^{Geneva, Switzerland, (October 19, 2018)}
Released today by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), a new report looking at the burden and management of fragility fractures in six European countries (France ...

^{November 1, 2018}
The clinical significance of osteoporosis lies in the painful, debilitating fractures that arise, which are a major cause of long-term disability in the population. Nevertheless, osteoporosis is ...

^{October 19, 2018 - Geneva, Switzerland}

Osteoporosis, a disease which causes bones to become weak and fragile, is the cause of broken bones in approximately one in three women and ...

^{April 8, 2019 - Paris (embargoed 6:00 CET / 12 :00 EST)}

Calcium is a major building block of the skeleton and important for bone health throughout life. In order ...

^{Paris, April 5, 2019 (embargoed 6:00 CET)}

A recent International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) report outlining the burden of osteoporosis in six European countries, reveals that osteoporosis is massively undertreated, at ...

The Meeting, organized by the HIPGEN project’s coordinator Dr Tobias Winkler (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) in collaboration with host organization ALTA, brought together more than 30 participants representing a network ...

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), the Asian Federation of Osteoporosis Societies (AFOS) and the International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) have launched a new regional alliance in which the three ...

Formation of the Asia Pacific Fragility Fracture Alliance coincides with an article published in MJA Insight calling for an urgent, cross-disciplinary, multi-sector response to the mounting medical emergency facing Asia’s ...

The widely reported message that vitamin D supplements are not needed, stemming from the recent publication by Bolland et al. in the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, has caused much confusion ...

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is the treatment of choice for many patients with malignant and non-malignant hematological diseases, such as leukemia and multiple myeloma. The success of recent advances ...

Fragility fractures are a serious yet neglected complication of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, with increased risk of fragility fractures in people with diabetes extending across the life ...

Hip fractures are a major public health concern in the European Union, with an increasing incidence of 1 million patients per year, high direct and indirect costs due to the ...