Running the London marathon is a daunting prospect for most, but for two women living with osteoporosis it is the latest in a series of challenges they are battling to overcome. Diana Gould, 70 and Sabria Stanton-McKellar, 28 will brave the 26.2
Campaigners have called for three government departments to stop squabbling over who should pay for specialist fracture clinics in all NHS trusts. The Sunday Express’s Better Bones campaign aims to prevent thousands of people suffering death or disability linked to osteoporosis every
A Conservative peer is calling on the government to honour a pledge to invest in specialist fracture clinics made during a parliamentary debate last week. During a debate on Monday Lord Markham, Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health revealed
Stephen Robinson, 71, who has the agonising brittle bone disease, attended October’s gathering in Manchester in a bid to secure better treatment for fellow sufferers. But after hours of standing and walking around he admits it was a painful “waste of time”.
The senseless postcode lottery facing people with osteoporosis has been laid bare by the plight of patients in two neighbouring cities in England. While Bath in the south-west boasts world class services to diagnose and treat the devastating brittle bone disease, just
Ending the “postcode lottery” that allows osteoporosis to go undetected would be a huge boost to the economy, says a senior MP. Former Lib Dem leader Tim Farron is backing the Sunday Express Better Bones campaign. In collaboration with the Royal Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis: Royal Osteoporosis Society discusses disease Union leaders and business bosses are backing our campaign to tackle osteoporosis. Poor access to specialist bone clinics for over-50s is dragging down the economy by keeping employees out of the workforce, trade union leaders say.
Former health secretary Matt Hancock has demanded answers from the Government on how it will end the “postcode lottery” that prevents people with osteoporosis accessing quality care. The independent MP for West Suffolk has been an outspoken supporter of the Sunday Express’s
The Sunday Express Better Bones campaign to fight the “silent disease” of osteoporosis has been backed by more than 600 medics and 100 cross-party MPs and Peers. Leading charity Age UK has also joined our crusade to turbo-charge early diagnosis of the
May is National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month. The very common condition of osteoporosis occurs when the body doesn’t create enough bone tissue to keep up with the amount that is absorbed by the body — resulting in weak, brittle bones. The