In the case of a hip fracture, operating on a patient with dementia can be a difficult decision to make. Indeed, surgery exposes patients with dementia to a higher mortality rate, more delirium and ...

A 72-year-old woman fell as she was getting out of bed at a nursing home. She complained of right hip pain and was referred to the emergency room for further evaluation. As the orthopaedist on call, ...

Gabapentinoids -- pregabalin and gabapentin -- were tied to increased hip fracture risk in older adults. Risks were high for people with chronic kidney disease or significant frailty. Odds of hip ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Femoral neck BMD was better at predicting hip fractures for women aged 80 years and older than two fracture risk ...

It has been proposed that anabolic hormonal treatment could boost effectiveness of exercise programs in older women's recovery from hip fracture. In this randomized trial, with 6-minute walk distance ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “There is abundant evidence that men are not adequately screened for osteoporosis, and those with osteoporosis ...

Findings of a new study show higher mortality among Black women who were between 65 and 74 within six months of a hip fracture. In contrast, data from 2010 to 2016 among Medicare beneficiaries (but ...

When you’re assessing older women for the risk of hip fracture, renal dysfunction is a red flag. That’s the message from a multi-center study of 300 randomly selected women aged 65 and older who ...

Despite the risk of subsequent fractures in patients with osteoporosis, only approximately 20% of patients nationally receive the appropriate evaluation and treatment following a fragility fracture. A ...

Since the election, clinicians across the NHS have called on ministers to honour their promise of early diagnosis clinics for ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: In a recent column about osteoporosis, you said that a hip fracture “is devastating.” I’ve heard this often, but honestly, I don’t really understand why this particular injury often ...