Fragility fractures are the most important clinical complication of osteoporosis. Worldwide, one in three women and one in five men over the age of 50 will suffer ...
September 06, 2021
The International Osteoporosis Foundation’s (IOF) Capture the Fracture® program has launched a new, enhanced online platform to enable coordinated post-fracture care services (including ‘Fracture Liaison Services’, or FLS) to ...
August 18, 2021
Currently, only 20% of patients who sustain a fragility fracture are offered screening or treatment for osteoporosis. This treatment gap represents a missed opportunity to protect patients from a future ...
August 19, 2021
Asian countries are facing the most marked increase in fragility fractures globally, with the number of people at high fracture risk expected to double from 2010-2030. By 2050 approximately half ...
July 29, 2021
The Waitematā District Health Board (DHB) Fracture Liaison Service has achieved the highest standard of coordinated post-fracture care, earning a Capture the Fracture® Gold Standard certificate in recognition of ...
May 07, 2021
Today, the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and Osteoporosis Canada (OC) are pleased to announce the inclusion of 42 Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) from the Osteoporosis Canada FLS Registry on the ...
April 20, 2021
On March 20th, the ‘IOF Tour: Approach to Secondary Fracture Prevention in Mexico’ was held in conjunction with the National College of Geriatric Medicine (CONAMEGER).
Mexican mentors ...
March 30, 2021
In the UK a new All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Osteoporosis and Bone Health has been launched today. The APPG will work to raise awareness of the condition and the ...
March 25, 2021
IOF recently had the pleasure to be invited to the ‘Ageing population & Autonomy’ Roundtable organised by representatives of the French Parliament in cooperation with ANCO (Alliance Nationale Contre l’Ostéoporose) ...
February 24, 2021
“We’re incredibly excited to present a vibrant new platform to host IOF’s landmark Capture the Fracture® Program,” announced International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) President, Professor Cyrus Cooper today.
“This ...
February 08, 2021
By 2025 some 500 million people will be living with osteoporosis, a chronic disease which weakens bones and leaves older adults at risk of a fragility fracture - a broken ...
February 01, 2021
Vertebral fractures often remain undetected, despite their significance as risk factors for future fractures. The routine use of vertebral fracture assessment (VFA) in fracture liaison services would help physicians detect ...
January 28, 2021