When award-winning actress Blythe Danner was diagnosed with postmenopausal osteoporosis at increased risk for fracture, she was concerned about how breaking a bone could impact her ability to do those things most important to her. Those include such things as continuing to act, being a mother to her son and daughter, and more importantly, being an active grandmother to her grandchildren. That is why she is encouraging women like her to educate themselves, take action, and speak to their doctors about what they can do to help strengthen their bones. Danner and Dr. Andrea Singer were guests on Daybreak USA to talk about Danner’s diagnosis and what women need to understand about postmenopausal osteoporosis.
Sunday, August 28th 2011
Blythe Danner
posted @ 8:45 pm in [ WomenHealth ]
Friday, August 26th 2011
“Act 2 Reduce Fractures” Launches
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Emmy® and Tony® award-winning actress Blythe Danner and Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) today launch Act 2 Reduce Fractures™, an educational campaign for women with postmenopausal osteoporosis at increased risk for fractures. Earlier this year, Danner was diagnosed with postmenopausal osteoporosis at increased risk for fractures and wants to encourage women like her to educate themselves, take action and speak to their doctors to learn all they can about helping to strengthen their bones. The campaign is being supported by American Bone Health, the Global Healthy Living Foundation and the Older Women’s League. To view Multimedia News Release, go to multivu.prnewswire.com
Wednesday, August 24th 2011
Buy Evista – Osteoporosis Drug
posted @ 8:58 pm in [ WomenHealth ]
CanadaPharmacyOnline.com offers generic Evista (also called Ralista) 60 mg made by Cipla for the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women.
Thursday, August 18th 2011
YOGA for OSTEOPOROSIS with YogaYin
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Yoga therapist Allannah Law demonstrates a series of poses to help improve and also avoid osteoporosis. 10 minutes a day has been scientifically proven to improve bone strength. www.yogayin.com
Monday, August 15th 2011
introduction to osteo rescue.mp4
posted @ 8:44 pm in [ WomenHealth ]
Osteo Rescue is a new innovation in health care and the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. 2.2 million people in Australia have some degree of osteoporosis. 4 out of 5 people who have osteoporosis are unaware they have osteoporosis. Diagnosis is done by special x-ray called DXA. Eden Natural Health we recommend that all over 60s and all post menopausal women take Osteo Rescue. Osteo Rescue. Osteo Rescue is a revolutionary product that is clinically proven to reduce the rate of loss of bone density. Osteo Rescue contains MCHC which is a high bio-available Calcium supplement. Osteo Rescue also contains Phosphorous, Magnesium and Collagen which are all essential building blocks of bone. building blocks of bone. MCHC has been shown clinically to slow the loss of depletion of bone density as compared to conventional inorganic Calcium supplements. to conventional inorganic Calcium supplements.
Tuesday, August 2nd 2011
Osteopenia: The Warning Sign
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Susan Cross was leaving nothing to chance when she had a bone density scan to screen for osteoporosis. “It was sort of like an MRI, they just scan you. There’s no pain; doesn’t take really that long. There’s no preparation.” The test showed she had osteopenia, which is a related disorder. “Once you have a bone density test done, if you do have what we call osteopenia where you’re starting to lose calcium out of your bones, or you’ve lost sufficient calcium out of your bones – so now we call it osteoporosis,” says Dr. David Heligman, an orthopedic surgeon on the medical staff of Lee Memorial Health System. Bones naturally become thinner as people grow older. Beginning in middle age, existing bone cells are reabsorbed by the body faster than new bone is made. Osteopenia affects about half of Americans over the age of 50. Women are far more likely to have it because bone loss speeds up as hormones change. “When women enter the post menopausal phase in their life, usually after 50, their estrogen levels decrease and that causes absorption of calcium and vitamin D to decrease in the sense that the amount of calcium in the bones is decreasing and the bones are getting weaker,” says Dr. Heligman. The term ‘osteopenia’ may sound intimidating but is simply treated with calcium supplements. “In terms of the amount of calcium you need, you need 1000 milligrams of calcium a day and you can either take like Oscale or Caltrate or any of those – usually two pills a day,” says Dr …

