Osteoporosis and bone health
One in ten community-dwelling Australian women aged over 65 takes calcium supplements. Practically none of them need…
I got a REMS scan; here's what I learned.
A fascinating interview with orthopaedic surgeon Dr Nick Birch on what's wrong with the current medical approach…
4 November 2024 Recently, a friend reached out for advice after suffering a wrist fracture. She is…
Part 6: Optimising vitamin D activation Fine-tuning calcitriol As I've stressed in previous instalments of this miniseries…
Part 3: What is a 'normal' vitamin D level? 2 September 2024 In Part 1 of this…
Part 2: The many faces of vitamin D... or, what doesn't vitamin D do? As you'll (hopefully)…
Updated 22 January 2024 In Part 1 of this series on proton pump inhibitors, I covered the…
Far from being an inevitable consequence of growing older, osteoarthritis may be the consequence of 'evolutionary mismatch'…
The broken bone business is lucrative, but what's in it for patients?
Updated 3 October 2022 Bone mineral density (BMD) scanning using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA, commonly referred to…
The three major health fears that plague women as they get older are developing breast cancer, becoming…
