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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 "What is the risk of a hip fracture?" asked Dr. Lucas Wong, an associate professor of internal medicine at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and co-director of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Program at Scott & White. "An elderly woman can be debilitated and even die from a fracture. Ideally, we should find ways to prevent disease as every drug we take puts us at some kind of risk."
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Visit the National Osteoporosis Foundation for more on how to prevent and treat this condition.
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SOURCES: Daniel H. Solomon, M.D., chief, clinical research, division of rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and associate professor, medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Robert C. Ashton Jr., M.D., director, thoracic surgery, Moses Division, and director, minimally invasive thoracic surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, New York City; Lucas Wong, M.D., associate professor, internal medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, co-director, Gastrointestinal Cancer Program, and principal investigator, Community Clinical Oncology Program, Scott & White; April 23, 2009, New England Journal of Medicine
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