Drug Therapy for Osteoporosis offers the reader a comprehensive examination of the current research into new and more effective treatments of osteoporosis.

With contributions from a variety of experts in the field of clinical research and practice, Drug Therapy for Osteoporosis is essential reading and provides an authoritative view for gynecologists, endocrinologists, rheumatologists, orthopedic surgeons, and pharmaceutical scientists working in the treatment of osteoporosis.

Contents:

1. An overview of osteoporosis epidemiology
2. Estrogen for the prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosis
3. Selective estrogen receptor modulators in the prevention and treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis
4. The laboratory evaluation of osteoporosis : bone densitometry, routine laboratory studies and bone biochemistry
5. Bisphosphonate therapy for osteoporosis
6. Treatment of osteoporosis with parathyroid hormone

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