Dairy products offer little help in preventing bone loss and fractures in women at risk, according to new research.
Clinical Briefs for Wednesday, May 20
By
Alicia Lasek
May 19, 2020
Report shows “staggering” mortality among patients with COVID-19 symptoms … Fruit and vegetable-rich diet tied to lowered cardiac damage markers in healthy adults … Direct oral anticoagulants tied...
Clinical Briefs for Friday, April 24
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 23, 2020
Hydroxychloroquine does not cut ventilator use in COVID-19, unpublished VA study finds … Low vitamin D alone unlikely to cause fractures … New blood test for Alzheimer’s developed, researchers...
Fracture location affects long-term outcomes in older adults, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 31, 2020
Fractures closer to the body’s center raise older patients’ odds of hospitalization and premature death.
Clinical Briefs for Wednesday, April 1
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 31, 2020
COVID-19 patients often infected with other respiratory viruses: early study … Providers trying to ‘MacGyver’ their way around COVID-19 … Doctors, hospitals, pharmacies warned not to stockpile...
Drug treatment added to guidelines for severe osteoporosis in older women
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 11, 2020
Romosozumab offers promising results in carefully selected postmenopausal patients at high risk of fracture, says the Endocrine Society.
Targeted care and drugs help lower fracture risk, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Feb 27, 2020
Secondary fracture risk fell by 18% when high-risk elders received coordinated fracture care, a Swedish study team has found.
Recent falls can worsen fracture risk among women, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 09, 2020
Older women who report recent falls are more likely fracture a bone in the next five years. Injurious falls are linked to the most severe risk.
Clinical Briefs for Tuesday, December 3
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Alicia Lasek
Dec 02, 2019
Aerobic exercise, improved diet could slow memory decline in residents … Nearly half of patients don’t understand informed consent for heart procedure … Fracture risk heightened in adults with atopic...
Taking more than one fracture-related drug increases bone break risk
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 13, 2019
Taking multiple fracture-related drugs – especially in certain combinations – is linked to a two-fold increase in hip fracture risk, Medicare data shows.