THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG SECRETIN SIGNALING IN THE VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMUS REGULATES SKELETAL AND METABOLIC HOMEOSTASIS. IMAGE ADAPTED FROM RESPECTIVE PAPER IN NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2024) view moreCREDIT: THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG A team of researchers from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has made a significant breakthrough in understanding how energy metabolism and bone...
by American Chemical Society Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain With ever-increasing life expectancy comes the challenge of treating age-related disorders such as osteoporosis. Although there are effective drugs for treating this metabolic bone disease, they can be expensive and have side effects, limiting their availability to some people.In the search for alternative drug candidates, researchers reporting in...
by Lori Solomon Most women with osteoporosis want to know their fracture risk, but only half have received this information from health care providers, according to a study published online Nov. 13 in Osteoporosis International. Charlotte Beaudart, Ph.D., from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and colleagues used data from the Risk Communication in Osteoporosis study...
POSTED BY ANDREW YAWN-TULANE “This study established that the gut microbiome is important for our bone health and getting a healthy microbiome composition is important,” Hong-Wen Deng says. “Now that we’ve identified a target in B. vulgatus, we want to lower its abundance.” One of the most common forms of gut bacteria may be to blame...
Jake Remaly October 12, 2023 Assessing a key aspect of bone architecture, for which clinicians can now be reimbursed under Medicare, can significantly improve the ability to predict a patient’s risk for bone fracture. Although bone mineral density (BMD) is traditionally used to identify patients with osteoporosis or low bone mass, some physicians have begun incorporating the...
WILEY New research published in The FASEB Journal indicates that increasing the expression of a particular gene may help to prevent bone loss associated with postmenopausal osteoporosis. For the study, investigators examined which genes are involved in turning precursor cells called bone marrow–derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) into cells that play a crucial role in bone formation. The screen...
People with osteoporosis can use natural treatment methods to help prevent or slow down the condition. Doctors may recommend natural treatments and lifestyle changes alongside medication. Depending on how much bone density a person has lost, they may require medical treatments for osteoporosis. However, natural remedies may help alleviate symptoms or slow down the progression...
by The North American Menopause Society Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Osteoporosis is a degenerative, debilitating bone disease that is increasingly prevalent in postmenopausal women. Despite its being classified as one of the four most dangerous health issues today, a new study demonstrated that many women either misunderstand it or underestimate its potential effects. As a result,...
Neil Skolnik, MDD April 24, 2023 I’m Dr Neil Skolnik. Today’s topic is the new osteoporosis treatment guidelines issued by the American College of Physicians (ACP). The focus of the guidelines is treatment of osteoporosis. But first, I want to discuss screening. In their 2018 statement, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) says that osteoporosis should be screened for in...
by Columbia University Bayesian kernel machine regression univariate exposure-response plots with 95% credible intervals for the effect of each pollutant on the different bone mineral density sites evaluated. Credit: eClinicalMedicine (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.101864 Elevated levels of air pollutants are associated with bone damage among postmenopausal women, according to new research led by scientists at Columbia University Mailman...
