Important Updates!

The Clinical Research Centre is committed to raising awareness in the areas of men's health, postmenopausal women's health, metabolic bone diseases (osteoporosis) and endocrine disease (including diabetes).

On this page, you will find links to information and recent research in these areas.

WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool

Osteoporosis Canada

Canadian Association of Gastroenterology

Osteonecrosis

Aclasta (Zoledronate) Infusion

Calcium and Vitamin D

Other

WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool

• FRAX® WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool

Osteoporosis Canada

• Osteoporosis Canada statement on esophageal cancer and bisphosphonate use January 2009
  Also available in printable PDF format

• Osteoporosis Drugs: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 2008; 300 (24):2846. Bridget M. Kuehn

• Breaking Barriers, Not Bones: 2008 National Report Card on Osteoporosis Care

• Fosamax and atrial fibrillation: Osteoporosis Canada responds

• Atypical fractures and bisphosphonates: Osteoporosis Canada response

Canadian Association of Gastroenterology

• Hip fracture and proton pump inhibitor therapy: CAG Position Statement

Osteonecrosis

• Osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) and bisphosphonates
  Dr. Michael R. McClung, MD, FACP, Oregon Osteoporosis Center, Portland, OR

  North American Menopause Society (NAMS) Menopause e-Consult—Vol 3:2 (April 2007)

• Osteonecrosis of the Jaw

Aclasta (Zoledronate) Infusion

• Aclasta (Zoledronate) Infusion

  • Aclasta Patient-Information Form and Consent

  • Aclasta Physician-Referral Form and Information for Patients

  • U.S. FDA Approved Product Monograph

Calcium and Vitamin D

• Nutrition for Healthy Bones
  BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre, March 2009

• Is it time to stop your calcium supplements?
  Osteoporosis Canada January 2008

• Nutrition: The ABCs of Vitamin D
  By Susie Langley, Medical Post

• Vitamin D Facts and Alendronate Facts

• Sweeping Cancer Edict: Take Vitamin D Daily
  Globe and Mail, June 8, 2007
  Also available in printable PDF format

Other

• Complications Associated with the Use of Bone Cements in Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty Procedures
  Also available in printable PDF format