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Comprehensive snapshot of the state of osteoporosis management in Europe set for October release

Foundation pays tribute to long-term President and General Secretary.

Today Alpro Soya has become a member of the IOF Committee of Corporate Advisors.

Online abstract submission is now open for the IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis - the only global congress dedicated specifically to all aspects of osteoporosis. Submission deadline is June 2, 2008.

The International Osteoporosis Foundation signs cooperation agreement with the China Health Promotion Foundation to promote osteoporosis prevention, treatment and research as well as  public awareness in China.

A comprehensive guide to applying new FRAX^TM tool and WHO technical report in European daily practice

A free online review journal to keep you abreast of the latest research in osteoporosis

Click here for further information about this prestigious grant of Euro 40,000 : The deadline for applications has been extended to March 10, 2008

Diagnosis of fracture risk becomes much easier, bringing benefits to those at risk and cost savings

IOF is pleased to welcome seven new members to the European Parliament (EP) Osteoporosis Interest Group. The Interest Group now includes representation from all 27 member states of the European Union.

The IOF applauds the appeal success of the National Osteoporosis Society (NOS), in the matter of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence’s (NICE) Guidance for the primary and secondary prevention of osteoporotic fracture.

Osteoporosis patient societies from Brazil, China, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Russia, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela and Vietnam were awarded valuable grants to carry out national campaigns in the fight against osteoporosis

The International Osteoporosis Foundation announced today that the Hellenic Society of Osteoporosis Patient Support has been named the winner of the 2007 IOF-Linda Edwards Memorial Award.

As of 2008 participants of annual Lyon course will be entitled to Continuing Education Credits

Participants underlined the importance of the upcoming audit report. Due for completion in 2008 and being prepared by members of the EU Osteoporosis Consultation Panel with IOF support, the report will provide a comparative overview of the state of osteoporosis and its management among EU member states.

Free download from the IOF website; CDs available in bulk upon request.

'Early bird' registration now available, close May 22, 2008

A generous donation by the Foundation will be used to support the first Asian “bone" of the IOF 206 Bone Fund and to fund various activities within the IOF Asian program.

HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein and Ali Bin Chakar, Under Secretary of the Minister of Health lend VIP support global launch event

World Osteoporosis Day celebrated in some 80 countries

More than 20 print, internet and TV journalists attended the World Osteoporosis Day 2007 (WOD 2007) press event held on October 16, 2007 for EU-based, Belgian and Francophone media.

IOF to launch largest World Osteoporosis Day campaign to date; October 2007 “Osteoporosis Risk Factors” events to involve national osteoporosis societies in more than 80 countries.

An event organized in New Delhi by the Arthritis Foundation of India (AFI) in association with IOF and Tetra Pak brought women achievers together to speak out against osteoporosis.

September 26, 2007 is World School Milk Day. Milk and other dairy products are the most readily available sources of calcium, a nutrient which is essential for bone health at all ages. Bone-healthy nutrition is particularly vital in childhood as it is the first step towards prevention of osteoporosis in later life.

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) has launched two new resources to help tackle the significant worldwide issue of osteoporosis patients not staying on treatment, known as ‘non-adherence’.

IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, December 3-7, 2008

Prestigious grant for young researchers to be awarded at the next IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis

The BJD has announced that it will continue to function as a platform for progress in the field of musculoskeletal diseases beyond the end of the decade. Osteoporosis is one of many musculoskeletal diseases which has a devastating impact on the lives of millions of people around the world

IOF to launch Risk Factor campaign as part of World Osteoporosis Day 2007 - Journalists invited to attend media seminar events to be held in Brussels and Dubai

IOF's new website, launched in October 2006, has been awarded a 'merit' in the category of medical communications by the organization 'World Wide Web Health Awards'

The National Osteoporosis Society (UK) is calling upon its 25,000 members to join in a campaign to appeal the NICE final appraisal determination (FAD) on treatment.

Dr. Ethel S. Siris, an IOF Board member, has been named the winner of the 2007 Marianne J. Legato Gender-Specific Medicine Award - an annual award issued by the Ladies' Home Journal.

Leading osteoporosis experts in the region have worked in cooperation to compile the first Middle East and North African Osteoporosis Consensus, endorsed by societies in fourteen countries.

Find out with the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) online Calcium Calculator, now available in Spanish

The International Osteoporosis Foundation’s Bone Appétit campaign, which highlights the importance of nutrition in building strong bones, has won the 2007 Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Excellence Award for International Public Relations.

IOF is deeply saddened by the loss of Professor Herbert Fleisch, who passed away on May 15, 2007 at the age of 74. Prof. Fleisch was a renowned researcher whose groundbreaking work contributed to the discovery of bisphosphonates for the treatment of osteoporosis.

Launch of a major new tool to help orthopaedic surgeons better diagnose and treat osteoporosis. CD contents are also available online as downloadable files.

Successful media launch and fundraising dinner to inaugurate new office and the start of the IOF Latin American Program

Cost of osteoporosis across Europe to be measured; concern about limited progress since 1998

Launched in 2006, the IOF Osteoporosis Course with Densitometry Certification has been enormously successful around the world.

Six companies lauded in new IOF Corporate Responsibility Program for Bone Health

For the first time, the IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis (IOF WCO) will be held in Asia -  in Bangkok, Thailand, from December 3-7, 2008. The 2nd Announcement for the IOF WCO is now available online.

One woman in three worldwide will be affected by "brittle bone" disease.

Promising new national coalition of osteoporosis patient and medical societies is launched in Turkey.

Anorexia, which in recent months has caused a stir among fashion circles, can seriously damage a woman’s bones and be a risk factor later in life for osteoporosis.

The last guidelines for approval of drugs to be used in post-menopausal osteoporosis endorsed by the European Agency for Evaluation of Medicines (EMEA) were dated January 2001. Since that time, several new chemical entities with original mechanisms of action have been approved for the treatment of osteoporosis.This environment of innovation in drug development for osteoporosis, combined with emerging new proposals to identify individual patients at high risk of fractures (World Health Organisation [WHO] initiative), has prompted the EMEA to release new guidelines which will come into effect on May 31, 2007.

The 2nd METCOP, held in Lebanon in November 2006, attracted more participants than ever before. The problem of vitamin D deficiency and the need for fracture databases in the region were two of the issues highlighted.

IOF survey shows good general knowledge of nutrition and bone health but confusion about vitamin D; half unaware that osteoporosis is more common amongst women than breast cancer.

Hong Kong Society hosted 50 participants at first course in May 2006; four more courses scheduled for this year; eight available in 2007.

New IOF report highlights vital link between nutrition and strong bones; 12 global celebrities urge bone-healthy eating habits; new IOF website launched; World Osteoporosis Day celebrated in more than 80 countries.

The IOF global launch of World Osteoporosis Day 2006, on Friday, 20 October was marked by a successful media conference in keeping with the theme "Bone Appétit: the role of food and nutrition in building and maintaining strong bones".

The IOF has endorsed a 'reference' model developed by Stockholm Health Economics. The model serves as a tool for assessing the cost-effectiveness of the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis. In particular the model is intended to be used for the evaluation of health care technologies affecting the risk of fracture.

Following an earlier decision to reimburse DXA in patients with increased risk of fragility fractures, the French government has now announced that it will reimburse anti-osteoporotic treatments, not only for patients with a previous fracture, but also for patients who are at increased risk of fracture.

The report of the 4th meeting of the EU Osteoporosis Consultation Panel - including special overview 'Improving the assessment of fracture risk - the WHO approach' is now available. [link 622]Click...

Friday the 13th of October turned out to be an auspicious date for IOF’s World Osteoporosis Day 2006 international francophone launch. Journalists were turned into chefs to highlight nutrition’s essential role in building strong bones.

IOF recommends several steps that companies should take to become good corporate citizens in the field of bone health.

Osteoporosis was chosen as a priority issue for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health and Women during the Austrian presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2006. In support of the ongoing...

The largest world medical congress devoted specifically to osteoporosis ended in Toronto on June 6, 2006, following five days in which nearly 4,000 participants from 98 countries learned of the latest...

This new award honors journalists whose work has helped to educate the public and health care professionals about osteoporosis. Journalist Lim Ai Swan of Malysia was awarded the prize for her article ‘Osteoporosis – Move it or Lose it’ which appeared in the China Press Berhad in October 2005.

Dr. Ghassan Maalouf, an orthopaedic surgeon at Saint George Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, received the prestigious first IOF President’s Award – which recognises an outstanding individual who has made a significant and unstinting contribution to the advancement of the work of the IOF.

Professor Pierre Delmas, from Lyon, France, today received the prestigious International Osteoporosis Foundation Medal of Achievement, presented during the 2006 IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis (IOF WCO) in Toronto, Canada.

Seven young investigators today received IOF_Novartis Young Scholars’ Awards, which were presented during the 2006 IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis (IOF WCO) in Toronto, Canada.

Dr Elise Feng-i Morgan, of Boston University received the 2005 IOF-Servier Young Investigator Award during the 2006 IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis in Toronto, Canada. The award was presented by Mrs. Laurence Alliot, Servier’s Director of the Div

The IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis (IOF WCO), the world’s largest scientific congress devoted specifically to the bone disease osteoporosis, opens on Friday June 2, 2006 in Toronto, Canada.

International Osteoporosis Foundation and film star Britt Ekland call for urgent action with Staying Power campaign launch. IOF introduces new [link http://stayingpower.osteofound.org/]‘Staying...

This newly developed slide kit on osteoporosis, prepared by an internationally renowned IOF faculty, offers a valuable resource for medical and healthcare professionals, and is designed for teaching purposes.

The IOF Osteoporosis Diagnosis Course, with Densitometry Certification is a one-and-a-half day course which is offered in partnership with national or regional osteoporosis societies. The course covers...

The Italian Society of Osteoporosis (SIOMMMS) is engaged in a large program of communication for the role of nutrition of bone health in the schools.

The title of the Campaign is "A Scuola di Calcio".

World Osteoporosis Day 2006 will focus on the role of nutrition in bone health. Under the theme ‘Bone Appetit’, IOF and its member societies will carry out varied campaigns to raise awareness...

This new report explains how exercise plays...

In conjunction with World Osteoporosis Day, IOF has launched ‘Un Cuerpo Sano / A Healthy Body’, a new Latin-beat, up-tempo osteoporosis song written and recorded by leading Latino pop singer,...

Role of exercise and proper nutrition in building strong bones stressed by seven title-holders in Bangkok event, experts warn of impending osteoporosis crisis in Asia

Around the world, IOF and its member societies carried out a wide variety of exercise related events.

IOF honors corporations for their programs to raise bone health awareness among employees