7.20.22 | Bone Health How Osteoporosis Broke My Spine, But Not My Spirit
Christine Thomas shares her osteoporosis story including a spine fracture at age 42 and decades of personal education and advocacy.
6.2.22 | Bone Health Women’s Bone Health: How Awareness, Policy, and Care Across the Lifespan Can Shape Outcomes
An April meeting of interdisciplinary clinicians, researchers, patients and patient advocates, and policy leaders discussed women's bone health care and research in this SWHR meeting.
5.25.22 | Bone Health New Fact Sheet Recommends Moving to a ‘Predict and Prevent’ Model for Bone Health Policy
The Women’s Bone Health Care fact sheet explores screening tools and policy recommendations for improving outcomes and reducing costs associated with osteoporosis in women.
5.20.22 | Bone Health Moving from a ‘Break and Fix’ to a ‘Predict and Prevent’ Model in Women’s Bone Health Care
DOWNLOAD THE WOMEN’S BONE HEALTH FACT SHEET Bone diseases often occur without symptoms, remaining hidden until a bone breaks. Women […]
5.11.22 | Health Equity Illuminating Disparities and Addressing Outcomes with the Women’s Health Equity Initiative
The SWHR Women’s Health Equity Initiative highlights statistics on women’s health in the United States, to improve health equity across disease states, conditions, and life stages.
4.13.22 | Bone Health Steps to Strengthen America’s Seniors: How Preventing Osteoporosis Helps America’s Health System
SWHR, in partnership with the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation (BHOF) and the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR), hosted a national webinar and congressional briefing to discuss osteoporosis and its disproportionate impact on women as well as its impact on society.
3.28.22 | Policy Women’s Health Policy Agenda Expands Focus Areas for 2022
The 2022 Women’s Health Policy Agenda outlines policy priorities across five key areas—public health, research and clinical trials, lifespan issues, coverage and access, and the biomedical research workforce.
3.28.22 | Diagnostics Assessing and Promoting Bone Health Across the Lifespan
SWHR hosts a series of public forums to share educational information about the importance and value of innovative diagnostics throughout the lifespan and across disease states and conditions. This event discusses how to improve health outcomes for diseases and conditions that disproportionately affect women, with a focus on bone health.
3.14.22 | Bone Health Bone Health Roundtable: Importance of Women’s Bone Health Throughout the Lifespan
SWHR convened an interdisciplinary Bone Health Working Group of health care providers, researchers, patient advocates, and policy leaders for a closed, roundtable meeting in April 2022. During the roundtable, the Working Group discussed scientific and policy issues in women’s bone health, including strategies for fracture prevention in at-risk women.
