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News: May 28, 2012
Heartburn Drugs May Raise Fracture Risk in Older Women
TUESDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Older women who take popular medications to control indigestion and heartburn may put themselves at higher risk for hip fractures, researchers report. Long-term use of these drugs, called proton pump inhibitors...
Hip Fracture Patients Often Have Other Health Problems
MONDAY, Jan. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Weight loss and malnutrition are among the medical conditions that increase treatment costs and the length of hospital stays for older adults with hip fractures, a new study finds. More than 250,000 hip fracture...
Osteoporosis Drugs' Safety Subject of FDA Panel
FRIDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Experts convened by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were to meet Friday to discuss problems linked to long-term use of bone-building drugs such as Fosamax, Actonel, Boniva and Reclast. These drugs, known a...
With Calcium, More May Not Be Better
TUESDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) -- Getting enough calcium for bone health is essential, but getting more than that doesn't appear to confer any additional benefit, Swedish researchers have found. With age, bones start to lose calcium, their major...
Study Sees Link Between Low Salt Levels, Fracture Risk in Older Adults
SATURDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- New research links lower-than-normal levels of sodium (salt) in the blood to a higher risk of broken bones and falls in older adults. Even mildly decreased levels of sodium can cause problems, the researchers ...
Operating Soon After Hip Fractures May Save Lives
MONDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly patients who have surgery soon after suffering a hip fracture reduce their risk of dying by 19 percent, a new analysis shows. Hip fractures are associated with a death rate of 14 percent to 36 percent i...
Wrist Fractures May Open Door to Disability in Older Women
FRIDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) -- A fractured wrist can lead to the development of disability in older people and harm their quality of life, new research has found. In the study, published online July 9 in BMJ, U.S. researchers followed a group ...
Radiation for Prostate Cancer May Boost Fracture Risk
SUNDAY, May 30 (HealthDay News) -- A new study suggests that prostate cancer patients who undergo three-dimensional external-beam radiation therapy may be at increased risk of breaking their hips, but they can take action to strengthen their bones...
FDA Warns of Fracture Risk With Popular Heartburn Drugs
TUESDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) -- Blockbuster heartburn medications such as Prevacid, Prilosec and Nexium will now carry a warning on their labels linking the drugs to a heightened risk for fractures, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announ...
Vitamin D Plus Calcium Guards Against Fractures
TUESDAY, Jan. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Daily supplements of calcium and vitamin D reduce the risk of fractures in women and men of all ages, even if they've suffered previous fractures, but vitamin D supplements alone don't offer significant protect...
Hip Fracture Odds Rise With Women's Age
FRIDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Hip fracture risk is seven times higher in 70-year-old women than in 50-year-old women, according to a study that found that postmenopausal women's risk for hip fracture rises sharply with age. The analysis of d...
Genes May Link Hip Fractures and Heart Disease
TUESDAY, Oct. 20 (HealthDay News) -- People with cardiovascular conditions such as heart failure and stroke -- and probably their close relatives as well -- may have an increased risk for hip fractures, a new study has found. Genetic factors might...
Stroke Doubles Risk of Hip, Thigh Fractures
THURSDAY, Aug. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The risk of a hip or thigh bone fracture is doubled for people who have a stroke, a new Dutch study finds. That finding shows a need for immediate preventive action after a stroke, said Frank de Vries, an assis...
With a Broken Hip Comes Higher Risk for Dying
TUESDAY, Aug. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Older people who break a hip have nearly a 25 percent chance of dying in the next five years, a Canadian study has found. The five-year death rate for those who have a spinal fracture is 16 percent, according to...
Powerful Antacids Raise Chances of Fracture
TUESDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- Powerful and widely used antacids called proton pump inhibitors and histamine-2 receptor antagonists relieve stomach acid, but also appear to increase the risk of hip and thigh fractures, a new study confirms. T...
Osteoporosis Drugs Might Not Raise Cancer Risk
WEDNESDAY, April 22 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies find that the class of osteoporosis drugs known as bisphosphonates may not, in fact, raise the risk of esophageal cancer. This is in contrast to news earlier this year that the U.S. Food and ...
Slow-Healing Bones May Get Boost From Drug
TUESDAY, April 14 (HealthDay News) -- A drug that boosts the body's production of stem cells appears to "jump-start" the bone-healing process to a point that older adults' bones heal as fast as young people's, suggest preliminary results released ...
Many Americans Fall Short on Their Vitamin D
MONDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- Over the course of two decades, vitamin D levels have dramatically decreased among Americans, a new study finds. Low levels of vitamin D have been associated with rickets in children and lower bone mineral dens...
In Elderly Women, Hip Fractures Often Follow Arm Breaks
MONDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly women who suffer a broken upper arm are five times more likely than normal to break a hip within a year after the arm fracture, a finding from a new study that might help in efforts to prevent both types...
Fractures in Older Adults Up Death Risk
TUESDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Any bone fracture that occurs in people over age 60 needs to be taken seriously, a new study concludes. That's because the Australian researchers found the risk of dying goes up for at least five years following...
Some Heart Failure Meds May Raise Fracture Risk in Women
TUESDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- The short-term use of heart failure drugs called loop diuretics does not appear to increase the risk of fractures in postmenopausal women, a new study finds, but their effect over the long term is less clear. L...
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