Experts fear osteoporosis drugs may make bones WEAKER

Osteoporosis drugs designed to salvage crumbling bones may actually make them weaker, research suggests. Imperial College London experts compared the hip bones of dead people who had donated their bones for science. They found those who had never once had a broken bone had more flexible collagen and mineral structures, which are the building blocks … Read more

Osteoporosis sufferers given hope with vibrating ‘bathroom scales’ developed by Nasa

HEALTH NOTES: Vibrating ‘bathroom scales’ developed by Nasa to stop bone thinning in astronauts offers new hope to osteoporosis sufferers By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:00 GMT, 15 February 2020 | Updated: 07:59 GMT, 16 February 2020 Technology designed to keep astronauts’ bones strong could be the inspiration for a revolutionary new treatment for … Read more

FDA approves osteoporosis shot that rebuilds bones at the same rate a teenager’s skeleton grows 

A new osteoporosis drug that can re-grow older women’s bones as fast as a teenager’s develop was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday.  An estimated half of women in the US will break a bone due to the devastating bone-loss disease that turns limbs brittle.  They are more at-risk than men … Read more