A new drug that rebuilds crumbling bones could spare thousands of elderly people from debilitating fractures. More than three million people in the UK have osteoporosis, which causes the bones to become fragile. Patients with osteoporosis are currently offered two main types of drug treatment. Romosozumab is now being used to treat UK patients in private practice but is not yet available on the NHS. ‘I think that it will become the first-line treatment.’A spokeswoman for the Royal Osteoporosis Society, adds: ‘It’s taken 15 years of research to get to this point, and it’s been nine years since the last osteoporosis drug was approved.

Source: Daily Mail May 16, 2020 21:02 UTC