by Site Admin | Nov 7, 2022 | Health
This year’s event will be held in-person for the first time and provide awareness and education. SATA CommHealth, in collaboration with Kampong Chai Chee AAC/SCEC, is holding the second edition of the Osteoporosis and Fall Prevention Festival 2022 on November...
by Site Admin | Mar 9, 2021 | Health
Final-year NTU students promote prevention through challenges, activities and reminders. Fragility fractures for Singaporean women as a result of osteoporosis, a bone disease characterised by decreased bone strength, are among the highest in Asia. As such an...
by Eleanor Yap | Oct 21, 2019 | Health
Older adults are encouraged to be aware of osteoporosis risk factors and to consult doctors if at risk. Marine fractured her spine while bending to help her disabled mother. Lo Lan broke her hip after tripping over a loose carpet in her home. Both women have...
by Eleanor Yap | Oct 22, 2018 | Health
Up to 70 percent of vertebral fractures don’t come to clinical attention. Osteoporosis, a disease which causes bones to become weak and fragile, is the cause of broken bones in approximately one in three women and one in five men aged over 50 worldwide. Spine...
by Eleanor Yap | Oct 25, 2017 | Health
The International Osteoporosis Foundation and its member societies worldwide emphasis early prevention. It’s invisible, and it’s dangerous. Osteoporosis, which causes bones to become weak and fragile, only reveals itself when a bone breaks. In older adults that...
by Eleanor Yap | Sep 12, 2012 | Health
A 65-year-old had a bad fracture five years ago and looking back, she wished she could have done things differently. Five years ago, Cheong Wai Fun (below) had a hip fracture as there was clutter in her home and a chair was in her way. It took not one, but two...
by Eleanor Yap | Sep 10, 2012 | Health
Early action to protect bone health is encouraged instead of delaying till after the first bone fracture. BY: Eleanor Yap Singapore has the highest number of osteoporotic fractures in Asia yet many post-menopausal women are leaving it to after they have...