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Oct 18, 2018 04:35 PM
Aussie sporting heroes share the Know Your Bones message
The inaugural ‘Know Your Bones’ Community Risk Report has today been launched at Parliament House, Canberra, by the Minister for Health, The Hon Greg Hunt MP, and the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care, the Ho...
Mar 15, 2018 06:31 PM
Osteoporosis: Garvan’s Fracture Risk Calculator turns 10
A visit to the GP can give you insight into your personalised risk of breaking a bone through osteoporosis – but it hasn’t always been this way.
Sep 13, 2017 12:00 PM
Dubbo Osteoporosis Epidemiology Study
Take 5000 people, scrutinise for three decades and what do you get? A wholly new understanding of osteoporosis for starters, and the insights keep on coming.
MEDIA RELEASE: Oct 20, 2016 12:01 PM
New Osteoporosis National Action Plan Sets Out Vision to Tac...
Action Plan Calls For National Strategy For Research Into Curing Osteoporosis And To Combat The Burden Of Fractures
Jun 16, 2016 12:40 PM
Know Your Bones: new online bone health assessment tool laun...
Garvan and Osteoporosis Australia are today delighted to announce the launch of Know Your Bones, a freely available online tool that helps consumers to understand their own risk of bone fracture.
MEDIA RELEASE: Feb 03, 2011 05:00 PM
An extra 5 years of life an unexpected benefit of osteoporos...
Clinical researchers at Garvan have noted an extraordinary and unexpected benefit of osteoporosis treatment – that people taking bisphosphonates are not only surviving well, better than people without osteoporosis, they ...
MEDIA RELEASE: Jul 28, 2009 08:00 PM
Why measuring absolute risk of fracture could save many brok...
Garvan scientists stress the importance of measuring a person's absolute risk of fracture when determining their treatment options. Other factors currently determine whether or not the Australian Government will pay for ...
MEDIA RELEASE: Mar 07, 2008 02:05 PM
Web-based tool to predict risk of bone fracture
Scientists from Garvan have developed a fracture risk calculator using data, accumulated over 17 years, from the internationally recognised Dubbo Osteoporosis Epidemiology Study. A paper describing the tool and its metho...