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No Extra Fracture Risk After Oophorectomy Bilateral oophorectomy may precipitate early menopause, but it does not seem to raise a woman's fracture risk, a new study suggests.
Reuters Health Information, January 5, 2012
Broken Arms Among Boomers Likely to Rise Broken arms send several hundred thousand Americans to emergency departments each year, and that number could rise by nearly a third by 2030, when the youngest baby boomers will have just turned 65.
Reuters Health Information, December 23, 2011

Does Long-term Levothyroxine Use Cause Bone Loss? Can chronic use of levothyroxine put patients at risk for fractures?
Medscape Pharmacists, September 20, 2011
Levothyroxine Dose and Risk for Fractures: Avoid Overtreatment Dr. JoAnn Manson reports on a recent study with practice implications for levothyroxine dosing in older adults.
Medscape Ob/Gyn, September 7, 2011

Proton Pump Inhibitors and Bone Fractures: What's the Risk?
Medscape Gastroenterology, September 6, 2011
NAMS Position Statement: Management of Osteoporosis
The North American Menopause Society (NAMS), June 30, 2011
Atypical Fracture and Bisphosphonates
The North American Menopause Society (NAMS), January 11, 2011
'D' is for Dilemma: Two Vitamin Guidelines, Two Recommendations
Medscape Family Medicine, January 5, 2011