Osteoporosis - emerging consensus

Emerging Therapies for Osteoporosis

Although several effective therapies are available for the treatment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women and older men, there remains a need for the development of even more effective and acceptable drugs. Several new drugs that are in late-stage clinical development will be discussed. Abaloparatide (recombinant parathyroid hormone related peptide [PTHrP] analogue) has anabolic activity lik...

Emerging Consensus In-situ

Traditional ontology mapping techniques are not strictly applicable in a dynamic and distributed environment (e.g. P2P and pervasive computing) in which on-the-fly alignments are sought after. We propose an approach that collaborates the logic formalisms with collaboratively created web repositories. A logic conceptualisation based “signaturing” algorithm is to discover, from concept definition...

New and Emerging Therapies for Osteoporosis

1New Mexico Clinical Research & Osteoporosis Center, 300 Oak St. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA 2 Jimenez Diaz Fundacion, Avenida Reyes Catolicos 2, Madrid 28040, Spain 3Universidade Catolica de Brasilia, DF, Brazil 4University of Hong Kong, 102 Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong 5Maria Luisa Brandi, University of Florence, Viale Pieraccini 6, Florence 50139, Italy 6Medical University Graz, Auenbruggerpl...

An emerging consensus on grading recommendations?

Middle East and North Africa consensus on osteoporosis.

With the increasing life expectancy, osteoporosis is becoming a major worldwide health problem. The magnitude of the disease may become larger in developing countries, more particularly in the Middle East region where the prevalence of low bone mass is higher than in western countries. Although several local organizations and countries have developed guidelines for osteoporosis, no previous reg...