Organizations for information, activities and resources

Throughout the country, there are many community, state and national organizations that provide health information, activities and resources to help people.

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Oswego County, NY - Osteo Bone Builders program

SusieHathaway
  • By SusieHathaway · New reply June 9, 2013
  • 3 replies
  • The Retired and Senior Volunteer program, a division of SUNY Oswego’s Office of Business and Community Relations, offers the Osteo Bone Builders exercise program at more than 20 sites throughout Oswego ...

A few interesting links

alwaysgrateful
  • By alwaysgrateful · Posted May 17, 2013
  • 0 replies
  • http://www.nia.nih.gov/health https://www.supertracker.usda.gov/defaul t.aspx http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/home-ca re-services/HO00084/?utm_source=newslett er&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=osteopo ...

Free strength program for women over 50 in Rising Sun, Indiana

SusieHathaway
  • By SusieHathaway · Posted May 4, 2013
  • 0 replies
  • "Purdue Extension– Dearborn County is offering a free strength training program for women over the age of 50. Weights are provided. The program will be offered from 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays ...

Legislation

VMAB
  • By VMAB · New reply April 25, 2013
  • 13 replies
  • Let me start off by saying, thank you for this site as I’ve learned from reading posts over the last several months. As a Health Education graduate student specializing in disease states such as osteoporosis ...

Raising Money

EmWare29
  • By EmWare29 · New reply January 14, 2013
  • 1 reply
  • Osteoporosis has greatly impacted my life. I am only a student and have yet to be diagnosed, but with my family history, I am sure I will one day. I want to spread the word about osteoporosis and get ...

Dr Kim Article

OsteoMike
  • By OsteoMike · New reply January 5, 2013
  • 4 replies
  • Hi Group, Here is an article that I found to be excellent advise for the New Year! Enjoy, and God bless! Mike http://drbenkim.com/prevent-osteoporosis .html also: http://www.drbenkim.com/best-way-stay-he ...

A special thank you to our four community group leaders

alwaysgrateful
  • By alwaysgrateful · New reply November 27, 2012
  • 13 replies
  • On Thanksgiving, let's take a moment to remember and send holiday wishes to our four community group leaders who contribute so much to this site. Here's an excerpt from a recent NOF post with more information ...

Virtual webcast

elise52
  • By elise52 · New reply November 19, 2012
  • 3 replies
  • I found this information recently. A little different than some information that was available in Ontario, Canada, but people might like to check it out. I don't know if these work everywhere, so if someone ...

San Jose, CA -Nov. 29th

SusieHathaway
  • By SusieHathaway · Posted November 15, 2012
  • 0 replies
  • Osteoporosis: Exercise and Fracture Prevention O'Connor Hospital physician Michael Henehan, DO, presents a Living Well Community Class on osteoporosis. Learn how exercise helps build strong bones. Specific ...

Spreading the Word about Osteoporosis

Judy_NOFStaff
  • By Judy_NOFStaff · New reply October 24, 2012
  • 3 replies
  • In this Huffington Post article in honor of World Osteoporosis Day this past Saturday, Barbara Hannah Grufferman shares some osteoporosis facts, resources and her own story http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-ha ...

What Helps You Learn About and Manage Osteoporosis?

smarie814
  • By smarie814 · New reply October 6, 2012
  • 9 replies
  • I would love help from anyone who is willing..... I am taking a course called Human Computer Interaction via Coursera. We need to do a project for the course and I decided that the biggest thing on my ...

Bone Health Basics

KMFDallas
  • By KMFDallas · Posted September 25, 2012
  • 0 replies
  • Bones. They give our bodies structure, allowing us to walk, ride a bike, and hold a child. They protect our organs and store our supply of calcium, a mineral necessary for building and maintaining strong ...

important information that's out there

faylou
  • By faylou · New reply August 12, 2012
  • 9 replies
  • Vitamin D: A D-lightful story for good health. Dr Michael F. Holick http://youtu.be/2lRtx-4_FOY http://youtu.be/fDg0BJw10Y4 Dr.Robert p Heaney MD on vit and ca http://youtu.be/IwdLXcfonlM dr bernstien ...

New online tool steers bone patients to meds, meds, and more meds

lilypads
  • By lilypads · New reply July 29, 2012
  • 16 replies
  • Here is a new and very sophisticated tool that doctors can provide to their patients to help them decide what to do about bone loss and fracture risk. There is no mention of Vitamin K2, even though it ...

magnesium the other even more important supplement than calcium

faylou
  • By faylou · New reply July 27, 2012
  • 27 replies
  • he didnt go into calcium/magnesium balance or vit d in connection with magnesium, but it is very worth while watching. http://youtu.be/3wtUn1gWgaw as far as i know drs barly even order the serum magnesium ...

osteoporosis what you thought it's not

faylou
  • By faylou · New reply July 27, 2012
  • 11 replies
  • this is an wonderfully and eloquently worded concept of dis-ease as i have ever come across. mostly an excerpt from the 'vit d cure'. Osteoporosis is NOT a disease of elderly, it is a symptom of the elderly ...

renal leak hypercalciuria

renalleak
  • By renalleak · New reply July 27, 2012
  • 1 reply
  • I would like to know where there are clinical trials and experts in the field on this disease ...

Bad bone density

Harleychick58
  • By Harleychick58 · New reply July 24, 2012
  • 41 replies
  • I just got my bone density results in my spine T score it -3.6, My femur -2.8 and forearm -3.2, i am so scared. I have take all meds in the past and none of them help, after 5 years they make your bones ...

FDA caught spying on its own scientists & whistleblowers

lilypads
  • By lilypads · New reply July 15, 2012
  • 2 replies
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/us/fda -surveillance-of-scientists-spread-to-ou tside-critics.html More evidence that the FDA is working for the corporations and not for the taxpayers they are supposed ...

Rome, GA

Sandi-sdivas
  • By Sandi-sdivas · Posted June 27, 2012
  • 0 replies
  • The Women’s Information Network will host a special Lunch with a Doctor program Friday at the Rome-Floyd County YMCA. “I got a grant funded to take the Lunch with a Doctor program to nine sites in Georgia ...

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