Bone Diseases

Your bones help you move, give you shape and support your body. They are living tissues that rebuild constantly throughout your life. During childhood and your teens, your body adds new bone faster than it removes old bone. After about age 20, you can lose bone faster than you make bone. To have strong bones when you are young, and to prevent bone loss when you are older, you need to get enough calcium, vitamin D and exercise.

There are many kinds of bone problems:

• Osteoporosis makes your bones weak and more likely to break
• Osteogenesis imperfecta makes your bones brittle
• Paget's disease of bone makes them weak
• Bone disease can make bones easy to break
• Bones can also develop cancer
• Other bone diseases are caused by poor nutrition, genetic factors or problems with the rate of bone growth or rebuilding

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

Bone Diseases on Wikipedia

'''Bone diseases''' affect the development and structure of bone. They include: *Bone cyst *Bone spur (Osteophytes) *Craniosynostosis *Fibrous dysplasia *Bone tumor *Giant cell tumor of bone *Hypophosphatasia *Osteoporosis *Primary hyperparathyroidism *Klippel-Feil syndrome *Osteitis Condensans Ilii *Osteochondritis Dissecans *Osteochondroma (Bone Tumor) *Osteosarcoma (Bone Tumor) *Osteomyelitis *Osteopenia *Renal Osteodystrophy *Osteomalacia

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External Resources

Quentin Kenihan - Official site of the Australian celebrity that suffers from a rare bone disease.

Jasmin Ariel Creations - Purchases help fund FOP research - a rare bone disease. Also, soap and candles.

Antibodies and Therapy - Article on the history of vaccination, the role of the humoral response in organ and bone marrow transplantation, leukaemia and lymphoma, and rheumatoid disease. Includes links to laboratories at the Therapeutic Antibody Centre, Oxford, UK.

DiaSorin - Develops and manufactures reagents for use in the treatment of infectious disease, endocrinology, bone & mineral metabolism, cancer, brain injury, cardiac, therapeutic drug monitoring and autoimmunity.

Hologic, Inc. - Develops, manufactures and markets proprietary x-ray systems to assist in diagnosis and monitoring of osteoporosis and other metabolic bone diseases. (Nasdaq: HOLX).

Nordic Bioscience Diagnostics - Develops immunodiagnostic products to identify diseases affecting bone and cartilage.

BioMep Inc. - Company founded in 1997 to develop new therapies for bone diseases. Outlines products under development and news from Montreal, Canada.

Aplastic Anemia Answer Book: MEdIC - - Patient information about this disease and all aspects of bone marrow. Diagnoses, treatment and some helpful hints are offered.

Essential Thrombocythemia - Information on diagnosis, treatment, and management of rare bone marrow disease affecting platelets

Bones and Soft Tissue - Section of an online medical/pathology text book by Dr. Ed Friedlander. Buried in here are some comments on Dercum's Disease (search for "dercum" to find them).

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