Patients being treated for osteoporotic vertebral fractures by percutaneous balloon kyphoplasty fared better with polymethylmethacrylate than with calcium phosphate. The researchers said calcium ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 74, No. 4 (Apr., 1977), p. 1763 (1 page) ...

This 79-year-old woman had an L1 osteoporotic vertebral pseudoarthrosis. After the CPC injection, the wedge deformity of the collapsed vertebral body was corrected, and a filling with the CPC was ...

Rochester, MN, October 5, 2017 - Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is fatal for over 90% of patients, and more than half of men and close to 70% of women who die of SCA have no clinical history of heart ...

In a position statement on cinacalcet use in children on dialysis, the authors emphasized avoiding hypocalcemia. The FDA has not yet approved use of the calcimimetic cinacalcet in children receiving ...

Calcium is an essential mineral — your body doesn’t produce it, so you have to get through your diet. It’s involved in proper growth, development, nervous system and circulatory function, and bone ...