June 30, 2003—A team of researchers from the DOE Office of Science's Argonne National Laboratory has demonstrated for the first time that cadmium releases calcium from bone within hours of exposure, ...

Scientists at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) have made a great leap forward in predicting the risk of hip fracture among women due to osteoporosis. They have discovered that it is not necessary to ...

I work in several family-planning clinics serving low-income/uninsured women, many of whom have been on medroxyprogesterone (Depo-Provera) for more than 10 years. Should we be doing bone density ...

What role does vitamin D deficiency play in such post-fracture symptoms as pain, particularly in northern regions? — Erin Rysavy, PA-C, MPH, Sartell, Minn. Nutritional osteomalacia (bone ...