Bone Diseases

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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Title:   Virtual Bone Centre
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   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
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Paget's disease
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   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.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Heel spurs
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Pain in the heel area is common and may be associated with a calcaneal spur, sometimes called a heel spur.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Metastases to the bone
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of metastases by professional health specialists.
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Achondroplasia
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Information on the treatment, diagnosis and symptoms of achondroplasia by professional health specialists.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Osteomalacia
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of osteomalacia by professional health specialists.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Osteomyelitis (acute and chronic)
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of osteomyelitis by professional health specialists.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Paget's disease (osteitis deformans)
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of Paget's disease by professional health specialists.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Osgood-Schlatter (OS) disease
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of Osgood-Schlatter by professional health specialists.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Osteosarcoma (osteogenic sarcoma)
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of osteosarcoma (osteogenic sarcoma) by professional health specialists.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Endochondroma (chondroma, Ollier's disease)
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of endochondroma written by professional medical specialists.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Bone cancer (chondrosarcoma of cartilage)
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of chrondrosarcoma - bone cancer written by professional medical specialists.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Ewings sarcoma
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of Ewings sarcoma written by professional medical specialists.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Bone cancer
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   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.
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Bisphosphonate drugs and Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (ONJ)
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Advice from the Therapeutic Goods Administration about Bisphosphonate drugs and Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (ONJ)
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Interventions for the prevention of nutritional rickets in term born children
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   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...
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Perthes' disease
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   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.
Date:   Jul 2007
Title:   Rickets
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   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.
Date:   Jun 2007
Title:   Bone cancer
Publisher:   The Cancer Council Victoria
Description:   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.
Date:   Mar 2007
Title:   Sunshine - health benefits and health risks
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   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.
Date:   Feb 2007
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