Injection offers hope for brittle bone sufferers

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Injection offers hope for brittle bone sufferers - 02-05-2007, 08:37 PM

Millions of women could be protected against life-threatening hip fractures by a once-a-year treatment with a new drug.
More than 14,000 women die every year in Britain after breaking their hips as a result of the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, which affects up to three million people. The new treatment cuts the risk of such fractures by more than 40 per cent.

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