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Secondary Causes of Bone Loss

	Pamidronate in the Prevention of Chemotherapy- Induced Bone Loss in Premenopausal Women with Breast Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Therapies

	Hormone Replacement Therapy

	Tissue-Specific Estrogens — The Promise for the Future

	Strontium Ranelate — A Novel Therapy for Osteoporosis or a Permutation of the Same?

	Summary Statement from a Workshop on Asymptomatic Primary Hyperparathyroidism: A Perspective for the 21st Century

Hypovitaminoasis D

	Short Term and Long Term Safety of Weekly High Dose Vitamin D3 Supplementation in School Children

Nutritional Osteomalacia: Substantial Clinical Improvement and Gain in Bone Density Posttherapy

	Hypovitaminosis D osteopathy: Is it mediated through PTH, lean mass, or is it a direct effect

	Two randomized vitamin D trials in ambulatory patients on anticonvulsants

	Regression of Skeletal Manifestations of Hyperparathyroidism with Oral Vitamin D

	Effect of Vitamin D Replacement on Musculoskeletal Parameters in School Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial

	Hypovitaminosis D in a Sunny Country

	Hypovitaminosis D in Healthy Schoolchildren

	Global vitamin D status and determinants of hypovitaminosis D

Bone Mineral Density

	Low Peak Bone Mineral Density in Healthy Lebanese Subjects

	Vertebral fracture risk and impact of database selection on identifying elderly Lebanese with osteoporosis

	Bone mineral density by age, gender, pubertal stages, and socioeconomic status in healthy Lebanese children and adolescent

	Effect of antiepileptic drugs on bone density in ambulatory patients

	Discriminative ability of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry site selection in identifying patients with osteoporotic fractures

	Effect of gender, puberty, and vitamin D status on biochemical markers of bone remodeling

Interpretation and use of FRAX in clinical practice. Position paper of the International Osteoporosis Foundation and the International Society for Clinical Densitiometry

Impact of nutrition on muscle strength and performance in older adults

	Osteoporosis fractures, DXA, and fracture risk assessment: meeting future challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Program Faculty organized and gave a 2 day course The ISCD IOF Osteoporosis Essentials Nov 25-26.This is the 5 th such course over the last few years that aims to advance knowledge and quality of osteoporosis care by concerned providers, and was attended by over 60 physicians and technicians. After a first common morning session the group split into parallel sessions for physicians and technicians. At the end of the course attendees have the opportunity to take an online test and receive a Certificate of Attestation or Register for a proctored exam at a testing facility in Beirut and become an ISCD CCD ie a "Certified Clinical Densitometrist" or an ISCD CDT ie a "Certified Densitometry Technologist". The certification, a marker of quality services by concerned densitometry providers is valid for 5 years and can be renewed a testing centers. View Photos

Osteoporosis Essentials course trains physicians and technicians in Lebanon

IOF-ISCD Course: Osteoporosis Essentials

Nov 25-26, 2015 - Gefinor Rotana - Beirut

7th annual meeting of the OSTEOS

Nov 27-28, 2015 - Le Bristol Hotel - Beirut

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