NICE is recommending that a spinal check is added to routine bone density scans under a draft update to its osteoporosis guidance.

The prevalence of vertebral fractures is high among men with prostate cancer at the start of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), according to findings from a cross-sectional, real-world study in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults with acromegaly are more likely to experience a vertebral fracture than those without the disease, and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The assessment tool may underestimate the risk of some vertebral fractures and subsequent clinical fractures.

The researchers found that 6.3, 6.6, and 11.1% of the zoledronate-zoledronate, zoledronate-placebo, and placebo-placebo groups, respectively, had a new morphometric fracture at follow-up. HealthDay ...

In the current study by Kallmes and colleagues, 131 patients with 1-3 painful osteoporotic vertebral fractures were randomized to receive either vertebroplasty (using polymethylmethacrylate) or sham ...

These investigators enrolled 60 bisphosphonate-naïve males ages 4 to 25 years old treated with glucocorticoids for genetically confirmed Duchenne muscular dystrophy. After 22 patients were excluded ...

The prevalence of vertebral fracture was lower among treated than untreated patients. Oral calcitriol safely reduces fracture risk in patients receiving hemodialysis (HD) without increasing the burden ...

Research indicates that osteoporosis and osteoarthritis (OA) are inversely related; however, limited evidence suggests that disc-space narrowing increases the risk of vertebral fracture in ...

MRI reduces vertebral compression fracture misdiagnoses before cementing MRI reduces the rate of misdiagnosis of acute lesions and hidden lesions before percutaneous cement augmentation procedures.

A coalition of leading international experts in nephrology, bone health, and musculoskeletal disease has released the first comprehensive Consensus ...