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Follow the links below to find information about bone diseases.
For specific information about osteoporosis or Marfan Sydnrome follow the links below to those topic pages.
Updated January 2008
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Virtual Bone Centre
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Virtual Medical Centre.com
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Bone information about the human skeleton and bone disease treatment, osteology arthritic joints, orthopaedics, bone research news articles, trials statistics, medical alerts information about the s
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Oct 2008
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Paget's disease
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Better Health Channel
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Paget's disease of the bone is a chronic disorder that causes abnormal enlargement and weakening of bone. Commonly affected sites include the skull, pelvis, spine and long bones of the arm and thigh. Paget's disease is the most common form of bone inflammation, or osteitis.
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Jul 2008
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Heel spurs
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myDr
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Pain in the heel area is common and may be associated with a calcaneal spur, sometimes called a heel spur.
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May 2008
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Metastases to the bone
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Virtual Medical Centre.com
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Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of metastases by professional health specialists.
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Apr 2008
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Achondroplasia
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Virtual Medical Centre.com
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Information on the treatment, diagnosis and symptoms of achondroplasia by professional health specialists.
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Feb 2008
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Osteomalacia
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Virtual Medical Centre.com
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Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of osteomalacia by professional health specialists.
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Feb 2008
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Osteomyelitis (acute and chronic)
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Virtual Medical Centre.com
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Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of osteomyelitis by professional health specialists.
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Feb 2008
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Paget's disease (osteitis deformans)
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Virtual Medical Centre.com
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Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of Paget's disease by professional health specialists.
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Feb 2008
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Osgood-Schlatter (OS) disease
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Virtual Medical Centre.com
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Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of Osgood-Schlatter by professional health specialists.
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Feb 2008
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Osteosarcoma (osteogenic sarcoma)
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Virtual Medical Centre.com
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Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of osteosarcoma (osteogenic sarcoma) by professional health specialists.
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Feb 2008
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Endochondroma (chondroma, Ollier's disease)
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Virtual Medical Centre.com
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Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of endochondroma written by professional medical specialists.
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Feb 2008
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Bone cancer (chondrosarcoma of cartilage)
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Virtual Medical Centre.com
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Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of chrondrosarcoma - bone cancer written by professional medical specialists.
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Feb 2008
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Ewings sarcoma
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Virtual Medical Centre.com
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Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of Ewings sarcoma written by professional medical specialists.
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Feb 2008
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Bone cancer
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Better Health Channel
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Bone cancer can be a primary cancer (starts in the bone) or a secondary cancer (starts in another part of the body and spreads to the bone). Primary bone cancer is one of the rarest cancers in Victoria. Treatment may include surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy.
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Jan 2008
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Interventions for the prevention of nutritional rickets in term born children
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Rickets is a disease which affects the bone of growing children. Calcium and phosphate are important elements which form the bone. In nutritional rickets, initially the availability of calcium is diminished, later disturbances in phosphate occur. The sh...
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Aug 2007
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Perthes' disease
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Better Health Channel
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Perthes' disease is a disease of the hip joint that affects children. The femoral head deteriorates because of poor blood supply. The bone can take between two and five years to re-grow.
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Jul 2007
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Rickets
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Better Health Channel
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Rickets is a bone disease of early childhood. Symptoms include soft and weakened bones due to a lack of vitamin D, calcium or phosphorus. Causes include lack of sunlight, nutritional deficiencies and disorders of the liver, kidney or small intestine. A similar condition can occur in adults, but it is called osteomalacia.
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Jun 2007
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Bone cancer
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The Cancer Council Victoria
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Bone cancers (also called sarcomas) can grow in bone anywhere in the body and around 46 people are affected by bone cancer each year in Victoria.
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Mar 2007
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Sunshine - health benefits and health risks
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Some small amount of sun exposure is needed to keep us healthy. This is because we need vitamin D which is made by the action of sunlight (UVB rays) on the skin.
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Feb 2007
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