https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Scientists have found a direct link between osteoporosis and rotator cuff tears, two conditions that often develop with age. Using health and genetic data from hundreds of thousands of people, researchers showed that fragile bones increase the risk of painful shoulder injuries, especially in women. They also identified shared genetic variants, offering fresh insight into the biological ties between bone and tendon weakness and pointing toward targeted prevention and treatment strategies. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-code-genes-osteoporosis-rotator-cuff.html Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:52:22 EDT news678703937 Osteoporosis, a condition characterized by porous and fragile bones, poses a significant threat to skeletal health. As the very framework of the human body, bones provide crucial structural support. When bone mass diminishes, it not only compromises this support but also impairs overall function, leading to a diminished quality of life. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-reveals-key-protein-excessive-bone.html Thu, 30 May 2024 16:18:57 EDT news636304734 Should healthy people be screened to help reduce their risk of fragility fractures? A new interactive online Fragility Fracture Decision Aid for shared decision-making can help clinicians and patients visualize their individual risk of fracture and the potential benefits and harms of preventive treatment. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-decision-aid-screening-fragility-fractures.html Mon, 08 May 2023 02:06:06 EDT news602730353 An estimated 100,000 to 120,000 fragility fractures occur annually in the Netherlands, the equivalent of at least 11 broken bones per hour. The cause is osteoporosis, a disease in which the skeleton becomes weak and fragile, leading to potentially devastating fractures that result in disability, loss of independence and premature death for some sufferers. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-01-netherlands-women-high-fracture-untreated.html Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:26:56 EST news594311213 It's a fact of life: As we get older, our bones tend to get weaker, and the risk of fractures and other bone injuries threatens our mobility and diminishes our ability to live full, healthy lives. It's a growing challenge especially for populations such as ours in the United States that are both aging and living longer, to avoid the cycle of decline that comes with bone breaks and immobility that in turn results in even weaker bone and greater risk of fractures. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-bone-quality-diagnostic-tool-insights.html Wed, 29 Jun 2022 14:32:03 EDT news575731921 Taking steroid inhalers or tablets to treat asthma or control flare-ups is linked to a heightened risk of brittle bones (osteoporosis) and increased vulnerability to broken bones (fragility fractures), finds research published online in the journal Thorax. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-steroid-inhalers-pills-asthma-linked.html Tue, 20 Oct 2020 18:30:02 EDT news522395773 A person with Type 2 diabetes is three times more likely to break a bone than a nondiabetic. Since the number of people with diabetes is increasing rapidly in the United States, skeletal fragility in patients with Type 2 diabetes is a growing, but little-known, public health issue. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-diabetics-bones-easily-figuring-fragile.html Mon, 11 May 2020 10:56:46 EDT news508413363 For patients with fragility fractures related to underlying bone weakness, a dedicated fracture liaison service (FLS) can lower the risk of subsequent fractures, suggests a study in the March 18, 2020 issue of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-fracture-liaison-patients-fragility-fractures.html Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:41:01 EDT news503764858 Muscle strengthening exercises are important for building bone strength and preventing osteoporosis, but new research shows that even just 10,000 steps a day can help to keep bones strong. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-04-older.html Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:18:00 EDT news475413470 Every year more than 2 million older Americans experience a fragility fracture to the hip, spine or wrist. Usually the result of a fall from standing height or less, fragility fractures stem underlying bone deterioration, not high-impact forces but to. Loss of bone mineral density (BMD) - the condition known as osteoporosis—is one way bones can become fragile, and screening patients for osteoporosis is the current standard for determining fracture risk in older adults. However, low bone mineral density is not the only cause of bone fragility, and the majority of older adults who sustain a fragility fracture do not meet the diagnostic criteria for osteoporosis. Physicians currently lack validated means of assessing fracture risk in these patients. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-bone-mineral-density-additional-traits.html Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:30:03 EST news462642744 Fragility fractures are a serious yet neglected complication of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, with increased risk of fragility fractures in people with diabetes extending across the life span. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-08-aid-patients-diabetes-fracture.html Thu, 16 Aug 2018 12:13:51 EDT news453640420 Broken bones among older people increase their risk of death for up to 10 years, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-07-broken-bones-older-people-death.html Thu, 19 Jul 2018 14:29:14 EDT news451229346 There is no disputing that the use of bisphosphonates - with brand names such as Fosamax, Boniva and Reclast - is proven to combat bone loss and fragility fractures in millions of osteoporosis patients for whom a fracture could be debilitating, even life-threatening. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-07-highlights-underlying-mechanisms-fractures-osteoporosis.html Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:00:05 EDT news420713141 (HealthDay)—Researchers say they have found the genetic cause of a rare disorder that causes children to be born with deafness, blindness, albinism and fragile bones. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-03-scientists-gene-rare-disorder-deafness.html Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:20:01 EDT news409508240 With the first of the baby boomer generation now entering their eighties, the next decade will see a significant increase in the number of people living with osteoporosis and experiencing the often devastating outcome of fragility fractures. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-02-mind-osteoporosis-treatment-gap.html Tue, 14 Feb 2017 11:05:28 EST news406292694 Fragile bones are usually an old person's affliction, but sometimes children are born with them. Now, a team of researchers led by UConn professor Ernesto Canalis has shown in mice that a specific gene can cause the disease, called Hajdu-Cheney syndrome. Overabundant bone-absorbing cells may be causing the disorder's characteristic bone loss, and the researchers hope to find a potential treatment. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-01-gene-variant-hajdu-cheney-syndrome-illuminate.html Thu, 14 Jan 2016 03:37:18 EST news371965030 Osteoporosis, a disease of progressive bone loss, affects 70 percent of the U.S. population older than age 50: one in two women—and one in five men. These individuals are at risk for fragility fractures, a break that results from a fall, or occurs in the absence of obvious trauma, and most commonly seen in the wrist, the upper arm, the hip, and the spine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-10-therapy-fragility-fractaures-percent.html Thu, 08 Oct 2015 09:48:26 EDT news363516497 Orexin proteins, which are blamed for spontaneous daytime sleepiness, also play a crucial role in bone formation, according to findings by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers. The findings could potentially give rise to new treatments for osteoporosis, the researchers say. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-06-proteins-daytime-sleepiness-tied-bone.html Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:31:04 EDT news321816647 A recent report issued by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) estimates that more than 22 million women aged between 50-84 years in the European Union (EU) have osteoporosis. Postmenopausal women are at greatest risk of broken bones due to the hormonal changes that occur at menopause which result in rapid loss of bone mass. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-11-million-women-aged-affected-osteoporosis.html Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:40:48 EST news303385156 St George's, University of London research has found that a drug normally given to osteoporosis sufferers could provide effective pain relief to patients with knee and hip osteoarthritis. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-09-bisphosphonates-effective-pain-relief-osteoarthritis.html Fri, 06 Sep 2013 08:40:01 EDT news297674825 People over the age of 50 who have suffered a fracture because of a slip or trip play a central role in making sure they get proper care to prevent a future fracture, a new study has found. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-07-patients-engaged-future-fractures.html Mon, 08 Jul 2013 11:49:23 EDT news292502948 Four years ago, Janelly Martinez-Amador was confined to a bed, unable to move even an arm or lift her head. At age 3, the fragile toddler had the gross motor skills of a newborn and a ventilator kept her alive. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-therapy-regenerate-child-undeveloped-bones.html Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:28:38 EDT news286010877 More patients are tested and treated for osteoporosis when fracture clinics have someone dedicated to screening for the bone disease, a new study has found. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-highlights-osteoporosis-treatment.html Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:28:44 EDT news229606116 Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have shown in an animal study that transplantation of adult stem cells enriched with a bone-regenerating hormone can help mend bone fractures that are not healing properly. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-stem-cell-treatment-option-broken.html Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:58:24 EDT news226501077