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• Bone Drug Fails in Breast Cancer Study

The bone-building drug Zometa does not appear to prevent breast cancer from coming back in most women, researchers report....

• Osteoporosis Drug Approved for Cancer-Related Bone Pain

The FDA has approved Xgeva, an osteoporosis drug reformulated to reduce the risk of bone fractures and bone pain in patients with cancer that has spread throughout the body....

• Serotonin May Be a Key to Treat Osteoporosis

An experimental oral drug that targets the hormone serotonin in the gut successfully reversed bone loss and built new bone in mice....

• Erbitux Helps Treat Advanced Lung Cancer

Adding the targeted drug Erbitux to standard chemotherapy drugs significantly cuts the risk of death for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer patients -- regardless of what chemotherapy combination is used, a study shows....

• Asthma Drug Albuterol May Help Treat MS

Adding the asthma drug albuterol to a treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) improved walking ability and delayed the time to first relapse among patients in a newly published study....

• Early-Stage MS Patients May Have Fracture Risk

People in the early stages of multiple sclerosis (MS) often have low levels of vitamin D and low bone density -- indicating bone thinning -- and thus are at increased risk of suffering fractures, a study shows....

• Bone Drug May Prevent Return of Breast Cancer

A drug that battles bone loss may have added benefits for women with estrogen-sensitive breast cancers, significantly reducing the chance that their cancer will return or spread, a new study shows....

• Bone Drug May Prevent Return of Breast Cancer

A drug that battles bone loss may have added benefits for women with estrogen-sensitive breast cancers, significantly reducing the chance that their cancer will return or spread, a new study shows....

• Bone Drug May Prevent Return of Breast Cancer

A drug that battles bone loss may have added benefits for women with estrogen-sensitive breast cancers, significantly reducing the chance that their cancer will return or spread, a new study shows....

• Several Great Tips to Treat Bone Bruise

If you get a sudden fall or jerk, you might have bruises on your on your bone. If you have the bruises, you will find that these can damage your bone but this cannot fracture it. To see the bruises on your bone, you should do some procedures in a high-density MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging). Another option is to undergo procedures in simple x-ray....

• Top 5 Bone Fractures

Are you one of those unlucky bone breakers? Well, most people have experienced some kind of bone fracture in their lifetime, whether treated or untreated. These can sometimes be in the form of a hairline fracture, or even a major break. Either way, fracturing a bone is no laughing matter, even if it's your funny bone. The top five bone fractures are common among people of all ages, and...

• Two-Drug Combo May Help Hard-to-Treat Leukemia

A combination of two drugs -- the chemotherapy drug Fludara and the biologic drug Campath -- may allow people with hard-to-treat chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) to live longer....

• Superhuman or Just an Extra Foot Bone?

These extra bones, called accessory ossicles, may show up in your foot. They usually occur because a small portion of bone (a bone growth center) fails to fuse together with the rest of the bone mass during childhood, when cartilage is turning to bone. Sometimes, the condition may be caused by an old trauma (aka injury) as well....

• Drug Extends Prostate Cancer Survival

Even when medical or surgical castration fails, a potent drug extends survival by 4 months in patients with metastatic prostate cancer....

• Osteoporosis and You

Throughout your life your body continually engages in the process of bone building. Old bone is broken down and removed as new bone is built....

• FDA OKs Drug to Treat Opioid Addiction

The FDA has approved a drug already used to treat alcohol dependence to help treat patients with addiction to heroin, morphine, and other opioids, including prescription painkillers such as OxyContin and Vicodin....

• FDA OKs Generic Boniva for Bone Loss

Three generic drugmakers may now sell their own versions of the bone-loss drug Boniva, the FDA has ruled....

• New Combo Drug May Cut Blood Pressure

By itself, Novartis's new blood pressure drug doesn't do a lot. But combined with the older drug Diovan, it boosts hypertension control better than either drug alone....

• Hepatitis C Drug Telaprevir Raises Cure Rate

Adding the experimental hepatitis C drug telaprevir to standard interferon/ribavirin therapy cured 75% of newly treated patients and shortened treatment time, drug maker Vertex announced....

• Bone Remodeling Process

Bone is an active and living tissue that undergoes constant renewal throughout life. Bone is renewed by the process of bone remodeling. In remodeling of our tissue there is a continuous balance between the activities of two major types of cells within a basis multi cellular unit....

• FDA Approves New Drug to Treat C. diff

The FDA has approved the use of an antibacterial drug called Dificid to treat adult patients with an infectious type of diarrhea that has become a significant problem in hospitals and long-term care facilities....

• Mineralization Process of Bones

In the latter part of the bone remodeling process, some areas of the new formed bone awaits a new cycle. The bone is made up of the lining cells and the osteocytes which are both derived from mature osteoblast. The osteocytes are embedded in the bone matrix and probably act as the main key in the initiation of remodeling activity of the bones....

• Stem Cell Transplants May Treat Aggressive MS

Replacing bone marrow with the body’s own stem cells may help patients with aggressive forms of multiple sclerosis (MS) go for years without seeing their disease progress, a new study shows....

• The Bone As a Living Tissue

The skeleton is constantly being renewed. Bone is a living tissue. Like many other tissues in the body, the skeleton needs to turn over constantly throughout life. The entire adult skeleton undergoes complete bone renewal every seven to ten years. The most frequent bone disease worldwide is osteoporosis....

• New Research on Bone Formation

Surprising new evidence is turning medicine on its head with regards to how the body regulates bone density. New research shows that serotonin produced in the small intestine sheds a whole new light on bone health....

• First Drug to Target Cause of Cystic Fibrosis Approved

The FDA has approved Vertex's Kalydeco, the first drug to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis for 4% of patients. Vertex hopes the combination of Kalydeco with another new drug will help 90% of cystic fibrosis patients....

• New Blood Pressure Drug Darusentan Shows Promise

The experimental drug darusentan lowered blood pressure in patients with treatment-resistant hypertension....

• New Drug Cures Hard-to-Treat Hepatitis C

Many hepatitis C patients who had failed standard treatment were cured when the drug telaprevir was given....