The best calcium supplements - They’re touted as an insurance policy against osteoporosis, but which offers the best payoff? We almost learn it at our mother’s knee: calcium is good...

Bone building without calcium - It is estimated that over 25 million people in the United States are affected by osteoporosis, or thinning of the bones. The condition increases the r...

Phenobarbital: - If it's good enough for our dogs - Phenobarbital, the world's oldest epilepsy drug, has fallen out of favour in the last decade or so. In the UK doctors have been forbidden to prescrib...

Lupus-associated bone disease may come with steroids - Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) treated with high-dose steroids appear to develop osteonecrosis (bone death) within one month of star...

Bone boost with calcium - The long held belief that milk (or the equivalent in calcium) can help strengthen bones has been vindicated by a US study group. ...

The epilepsy newcomer - Lamotrigine (marketed as Lamictal) is one of the new-generation antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) brought in as an alternative to the traditionally prescribe...

Brittle bones - Some hard truths about preventing bone loss - Osteoporosis, which means ‘porous bones’, describes any condition that reduces bone mass. Symptoms include leg and foot cramps; height loss; lower-bac...

Brittle bones - Building bones - The disproportionate focus on calcium as the most important bone builder means that many women and men at risk from osteoporosis miss out on other equ...