Thousands of people could be spared from a hip fracture each year if a new method to identify the risk of osteoporotic fractures were to be introduced in health care. This is the view of the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A human skeleton degenerating due to osteoporosis. The degeneration is the loss of height and the backwards curvature of the spine ...

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