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News: May 28, 2012
Certain Genetic Regions May Be Tied to Osteoporosis
SUNDAY, April 15 (HealthDay News) -- A large international group of researchers has identified 32 new genetic regions linked to fractures and osteoporosis. Variations in these regions could offer protection from, or greater risk for, bone-weakenin...
Calcium Supplements May Be Bad for Your Heart: Study
WEDNESDAY, May 23 (HealthDay News) -- Many older Americans take calcium supplements to prevent bone loss, but they may be significantly increasing their risk for a heart attack, a new study suggests. These supplements do not help prevent heart att...
Stopping Bone Drug Cuts Risk of Second Thigh Fracture: Study
THURSDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- People who suffer a rare type of fracture of the thigh bone while taking bone-building drugs known as bisphosphonates can cut the risk of a second fracture by discontinuing the medication, a new study says. Bis...
One 'Silver Lining' to Recession: Fewer Broken Bones?
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers in Florida may have uncovered a rare positive outcome from the downturn in the local economy: fewer injuries to workers. The new study finds that traumatic orthopedic injuries dropped by 16 percent...
Female Soccer Players May Face Health Problems: Study
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Intense training combined with insufficient nutrition may threaten the health of young female soccer players, suggests a new study that finds menstrual irregularities and stress fractures are common among thes...
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...
Could a Woman's Wrinkles Predict Risk of Fractures?
SATURDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) -- As if facial wrinkles didn't have a bad enough rap, a new study suggests that the worse a woman's wrinkles are in early menopause, the lower her bone density. That is not to say that wrinkled skin is being cite...
Weight-Loss Surgery Linked to Rise in Fracture Risk
SATURDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) -- The risk of fractures after weight-loss surgery may be even higher than previously thought, a new study suggests. Prior research has shown that people who undergo surgery to lose weight, such as gastric bypass,...
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...
Thyroid Drugs May Raise Fracture Risk in Elderly
THURSDAY, April 28 (HealthDay News) -- Many seniors may be at increased risk for fractures because they take "excessive" doses of drugs used to treat thyroid problems, a new study says. The findings suggest that treatment targets may have to be mo...
Girls in Some Sports Face Raised Risk of Stress Fractures: Study
TUESDAY, April 5 (HealthDay News) -- Girls involved in high-impact activities such as running, basketball, gymnastics and cheerleading are at increased risk for stress fractures, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed seven years of data involvin...
Adults With HIV at Increased Risk of Bone Fractures, Study Finds
FRIDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- Adults infected with HIV -- particularly adults between 25 and 54 -- are at increased risk for bone fractures compared to the general population, a new study has found. It's known that low bone mineral density ...
Newer Drug May Help Prevent Fracture in Men With Prostate Cancer
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- A new drug called denosumab (Xgeva) performed somewhat better than the current standard treatment of zoledronic acid (Zometa) for preventing fractures and other bone problems in men with hormone-resistant pro...
Stress Fractures Hitting High School Athletes
TUESDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Stress fractures linked to overuse may be more common than thought among high school athletes, especially among those who participate in running-related sports, a new study finds. "The risk is that we're often ...
Epilepsy Drugs May Raise Fracture Risk in Older Adults
TUESDAY, Jan. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Epilepsy drugs increase older adults' risk for bone fractures, a new study shows. Canadian researchers analyzed the medical records of 15,792 people 50 and older who'd had non-traumatic fractures between April ...
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 ...
Xgeva Approved to Prevent Fractures in Bone Cancer Patients
FRIDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Xgeva (denosumab) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to prevent fractures and other skeletal complications in people with advanced cancer that has metastasized (spread) to the bones. As m...
Fracture Risk Seen With Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer
TUESDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Long-term use of androgen deprivation therapy to treat prostate cancer may increase older patients' risk of broken bones, according to a new study. These findings suggest that careful consideration is needed bef...
Expert Panel Links Popular Bone Drugs to Rare Fracture
TUESDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- An expert panel concludes that bone-strengthening bisphosphonate drugs such as Actonel, Boniva and Fosamax can actually raise risks for a rare type of fracture of the thighbone. The panel is urging the U.S. Fo...
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...
Study Offers Support for Surgery After Compression Fracture
TUESDAY, Aug. 10 (HealthDay News) -- After studies last year found that a type of surgery called vertebroplasty was no better than a sham procedure in treating painful compression fractures, a new study now suggests the therapy can, in fact, ease ...
Specific Type of Blood Clot Filter Linked to Complications
MONDAY, Aug. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Two types of filter devices used to prevent blood clots from reaching the lungs may break and some fragments could travel to the lungs and cause potentially life-threatening complications, a new study suggests. V...
Fractures a Costly Cause of High School Sports Injury
SUNDAY, Aug. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Fractures are the fourth most common type of injury suffered by high school athletes in the United States and can be serious and costly, a new study has found. Ligament sprains, muscle sprains and bruising occur ...
New Data Supports Link Between Diabetes Drugs, Fractures
THURSDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- New research finds that two widely prescribed diabetes drugs may raise the risk of broken bones in postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes. There was also a fracture risk seen among men who had been prescrib...
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...
Scientists Find Way to Heal Broken Bones Faster
WEDNESDAY, April 28 (HealthDay News) -- Stanford researchers have found a way to significantly speed up the healing of broken bones in mice, a feat which, if replicated in humans, could mean people with fractures would be free of their casts a lot...
Women's Height Loss May Indicate Spinal Fracture
MONDAY, March 22 (HealthDay News) -- Height loss in postmenopausal women could be a sign of a spinal fracture, says a new study that included 8,610 women over the age of 60. "We observed a mean loss of height of 4.5 cm [1.8 inches] since early adu...
Long-Term Use of Osteoporosis Drugs Linked to Fractures
THURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- Long-term use of oral drugs prescribed to keep osteoporosis at bay may be associated with unusual fractures of the thigh bone, two new studies suggest. The research is not the first to link the drugs, known a...
Diabetes Drugs Avandia, Actos Tied to Fractures in Women
MONDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Women who take diabetes drugs known as thiazolidinediones, which include Avandia and Actos, are at a greater risk of bone fractures, a new study finds. Women who took a thiazolidinedione drug for a year were 50 ...
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...
Type 2 Diabetes Drug May Increase Fracture Risk
MONDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who take the diabetes drugs known as thiazolidinediones may be at higher risk of bone fracture, new research suggests. In the study, Dr. Ian Douglas of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicin...
Best Option for Fractured Nose Varies by Patient
MONDAY, Sept. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Successful repair of nasal fractures is possible using either minimally invasive or traditional open surgery methods, as long as the procedure is appropriate for the type of fracture, researchers say. The prope...
Sex Hormone Levels Linked to Fractures in Men
FRIDAY, Aug. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Sex hormone levels affect the risk of broken bones in older men, says a new study. The finding comes from a study that included 1,436 men age 65 and older who had their sex hormone levels measured periodically f...
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...
Surgery, 'Sham' Equal in Treating Compression Fracture Pain
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies suggest that vertebroplasty, a widely used surgery to help heal compression fractures, is no better than "sham" surgery when it comes to relieving pain and improving daily function. But both pr...
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...
Might Weight-Loss Surgery Lead to Fractures?
THURSDAY, June 11 (HealthDay News) -- Having bariatric surgery to induce weight loss might put a person at greater risk for broken bones, a new study says. About one in five cases reviewed by Mayo Clinic researchers revealed that the person fractu...
Avandia Raises Risk of Heart Failure, Fractures
FRIDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- The diabetes drug Avandia significantly raises the risk of both heart failure and bone fractures, but it does not boost the odds for either cardiovascular disease or death, new research has found. If anything, th...
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...
More Faces Being Spared in Motor VehicleAccidents
MONDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) -- People injured in motor vehicle accidents these days are less likely to suffer facial fractures than they were in the past, thanks largely to better and safer automobile designs, researchers say. Some 50 percent ...
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...
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