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"Injectable bone" gel may be a radically better treatment for osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is typically treated with orally administered drugs, which may take up to a year to have a noticeable effect. A new injectable hydrogel, however, is claimed to drastically boost bone density in as little as two weeks.
It was created by Prof. Dominique Pioletti and colleagues at Switzerland's EPFL university, and is now being developed further by spinoff company flowbone. Although the administered hormones might still produce unwanted side effects in such a scenario, they would be doing so for a much shorter period of time than is currently the case. A paper on the research – which also involved Dr. Vincent Stadelmann from the Schulthess Klinik, Zurich – was recently published in the journal Bone.
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