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Article: OSTEOPOROSIS DRUG WORKS IN MEN, STUDY REVEALS TREATMENT ONLY OK'D FOR WOMEN.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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A drug used to treat osteoporosis in women works just as well in men who have the brittle-bone disease, a study found.
Men account for 20 percent of the 10 million people with osteoporosis, but there are no osteoporosis drugs approved for general use in men.
The latest research, reported in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, is the first large study of men given an osteoporosis drug.
''We perceive it as a women's disease and have totally ignored the fact that a lot of men are affected,'' said one of the researchers, Dr. Eric Orwoll of the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Ore.
Osteoporosis weakens bones and leads ...