Category: Press Releases

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”4783″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_column_text]By Prof Richard Oreffo October 20th is World Osteoporosis Day – an opportunity to raise global awareness of the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis. We live in exciting and yet challenging times. Life expectancy for men and women will see many reach their eighth and ninth decades. Indeed, my daughters,…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]UK health and social care costs due to muscle weakness amount to around £2.5 billion according to a new study carried out at the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton. Scientists from the Botnar Research Centre (University of Oxford) and the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit (MRC LEU, University of Southampton) examined…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Researchers from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit have been given a capital grant to fund new state-of-the-art scanners to further their world leading research into the lifecourse determinants of bone and joint disease.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The £134k grant from the MRC will fund a new dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) instrument and Mechanograph technology that can…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]New research from the University of Southampton has found no association between the use of calcium or vitamin D supplementation and cardiovascular events such as heart attacks.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Calcium and vitamin D supplements, which usually come in the forms of tablets, are widely used in the population and have been generally viewed as relatively safe, but some…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”4594″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row top_margin=”page_margin_top”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Older people with poorer health are likely to have weaker muscles and to experience a faster rate of decline in muscle strength, according to a new study carried out at the University of Southampton.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Scientists from the University’s Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit (MRC LEU) examined the relationship between a…

Scientists at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton have worked with researchers from University of Queensland in Australia and McGill University in Canada to identify 153 new gene variants associated with loss of bone mineral density and an increased risk of fracture. The study comprises the largest ever genetic study of common age…