If you’ve been diagnosed with osteoporosis, odds are you want to do whatever you can to keep your bones strong. You may even wonder if it’s possible to restore lost bone density. But can you reverse ...
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Certain types of birth control methods have been associated with reduced bone mineral density. The risk may be greater in people who start taking them during adolescence. Birth control medications ...
With aging comes bone density loss, especially in post-menopausal women. A new study finds that supplementing with blackcurrant can ameliorate a host of conditions, including postmenopausal bone loss ...
Prescribed to treat hypothyroidism and thyroid cancer, around 7% of the U.S. population takes levothyroxine. The drug is a synthetic version of a hormone called thyroxine and, according to a recent ...
A widely prescribed thyroid medication called levothyroxine may cause bone loss and increase the risk of the bone disease osteoporosis, according to new research—but this does not mean Americans ...