Dr. Laurance Johnston's review of How to Overcome Your Health Problems by Brent Atwater Dr Laurance Johnston : Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Northwestern University. Laurance Johnston became a FDA regulatory scientist, a NIH division director, and director of the Spinal Cord Resea...

To look at me, you wouldn't guess that I am disabled. I'm a strapping ex rugby player, 5ft 10in tall. But beneath my skin, my bones tell a different story. They are liable to fracture or break at the slightest knock. At 50, I have the bones of an 80-year-old. My sudden physical deterioration occurre...

Playing ball games as a teenager can cut the chances of going on to suffer from brittle bones a new study shows....

From Forbes.com: Wyeth Pharmaceuticals just can't seem to catch a break. The company is not only increasingly worried that it will lose a large chunk of its revenues to generic competition, it also faces the ongoing threat that its pipeline is starting to go dry. A further delay in the approval of i...

For many people, healthy bones fall into that category of things to deal with "when the time comes." In fact, we rarely even think about our bones-until we break one. Clearly, by waiting until orthopedic problems occur (usually in the later seasons of life), we severely limit our options for improve...

I just saw an ad with Sally Field. She's hawking osteoporosis medicine. Yep, makes me feels old, too, because I happen to remember her as that cute li'l sprite, Gidget.  Granted, I'm younger than Ms. Field.  (I mean it. I really, really mean it. Pun intended...) Having been born in 1946, M...