A widely used fracture risk calculator may help guide surgical decisions to treat patients with an endocrine disorder called primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) that causes progressive bone loss, ...

In new research presented at the World Congress on Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases today, investigators showed that an osteoporosis screening strategy using FRAX as a ...

—Although FRAX does not have specific inputs for cancer and cancer treatments, may be an accurate predictor of fracture risk in patients with cancer, especially when BMD is included. Fractures due to ...

WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX®) V 3.10 features new model for Kuwait; now also available in Bengali and Farsi FRAX® is a major milestone in helping health professionals improve the ...

Today, the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases at the University of Sheffield, UK announced the launch of a ...

The commonly used Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX), which includes self-identified race and ethnicity information, and the Osteoporosis Self-Assessment Tool (OST), which does not, have suboptimal ...