As of 2003, there were an estimated 3.6 million people who had been diagnosed with osteoporosis, compared with half a million in 1994, according to the study by Stanford University researchers. Also, the number of doctor visits for the condition jumped to 6.3 million last year from 1.3 million in 1994.

The increases coincided with the introduction of the bone-protecting drugs alendronate, sold as Fosamax, in 1995; raloxifene, or Evista, in 1997; and risedronate, or Actonel, in 1998.

All three are among the non-hormonal alternatives to estrogen supplements, which have long been used to prevent osteoporosis but have lost popularity because of recent studies linking them to heart problems, breast cancer and other risks.

In 1988, estrogen was prescribed at 35 percent of osteoporosis-related doctor visits, but that fell to 3 percent last year, the study found.

The estrogen alternatives have grown into a multibillion-dollar-a year industry with widespread ads and slick promotional campaigns that have helped raise awareness about osteoporosis. The researchers said that probably helped increase diagnosis rates.

Partly because of the newer drugs, "the whole way that we think about osteoporosis has shifted ... to one of prevention," said Dr. Randall Stafford, who led the study. "We hope to catch it early enough to treat it early enough to prevent fractures."

Nevertheless, osteoporosis remains underdiagnosed and undertreated, said Dr. Ethel Siris, head of the National Osteoporosis Foundation's science and 바카라사이트 - http://www.caddietoursonline.com/cad_terms-and-conditions.php research committee.

Osteoporosis affects an estimated 10 million Americans, mostly women, who face a high risk of debilitating bone fractures, according to the foundation. An additional 34 million have less severe bone thinning that also increases the risk.

The study's authors said new guidelines recommending universal screening for women 65 and older may further improve diagnosis and treatment.

The study appears in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine.

Stafford and colleagues analyzed data from a physician survey conducted by IMS Health, a health care information company - https://www.change.org/search?q=company . About 3,500 randomly selected doctors participate each quarter in the survey.

Prescriptions for calcium, an older standard treatment for osteoporosis, fell during the study period. The authors had no data on sales of over-the-counter calcium pills. Stafford said the decrease is a concern, because calcium remains an important way of helping to prevent osteoporosis.

Getting calcium and vitamin D — either through diet or supplements — and exercising "are part of the package" for preventing osteoporosis, Siris said. "Those things are cheap and easy."

By Lindsey Tanner

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani anti-government protesters stormed the state TV building on Monday, forcing the channel briefly off air as they clashed anew with police and pushed farther into a sprawling government complex in the capital, Islamabad, in an effort to reach the prime minister's residence.

The violence is the latest in the turmoil roiling Pakistan, where anti-government cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri and cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan have been leading twin protests since mid-August calling on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign.

Over the weekend, three people died and hundreds were injured in what amounted to running street battles between the police and the demonstrators.

The rallies against Sharif constitute the biggest threat to his government little more than one year since he took office. Qadri and Khan allege widespread fraud in the country's May 2013 election, in which Sharif's party won by a landslide.

Pakistan's army chief, Raheel Sharif, met Prime Minister Sharif (the two are note related) on Monday, an army source told the Reuters news agency. On Sunday, Raheel Sharif urged the government and opposition leaders to resolve the crisis through negotiations talks and warned against the use of

force to end the demonstrations, Reuters says.

International observers found no evidence indicating rampant election tampering. Several rounds of negotiations between representatives of Khan and Qadri and the government have failed to make any headway.

The protests began with a march to Islamabad from the eastern city of Lahore on the country's Independence Day, Aug. 14. Once in the capital, the protesters camped out near the parliament, pushing their demands - http://pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=demands . Khan and Qadri had called for millions to join them but crowds at the most numbered tens of thousands at the height of the demonstrations.

The rallies initially remained peaceful, though they forced a lockdown of Islamabad and badly harmed the city's business life. Violence first erupted on Saturday, with police firing tear gas and clashing - http://blogs.realtown.com/search/?q=clashing with protesters who pushed closer to the seat of government in the capital's Red Zone.

On Monday, 카지노사이트 - https://test.irbis-center.org.ua/ Pakistani television showed images of the protesters and police clashing in various areas of the Red Zone, a sprawling complex of government buildings and grassy lawns in the center of Islamabad. The protesters, many of whom were wearing gas masks and were armed with batons, could be seen hurling rocks at policemen.

The protesters made it to a gate that surrounds the prime minister's residence where they were met by paramilitary Rangers and army troops. The gate is the first of at least two layers of security protecting the house and is a few hundred yards from the residence itself.

Once at the gate, the protesters staged a sit-in and did not appear to seek to go farther, as Qadri asked his followers to stay put.

Pakistan's state broadcaster said protesters also attacked its building, located in another area of the Red Zone. It went off the air briefly while private channels showed images of protesters inside the state TV building, moving through the corridors with sticks and clubs and smashing equipment as visibly nervous employees looked on.

Army troops and paramilitary Rangers then reached the building and began to clear it of protesters. As the TV came back on air, it broadcast images of protesters embracing the Rangers and agreeing to leave.

There were no immediate reports of injuries in Monday's violence.

The number of infections last year -- 708,083 -- was 4 percent higher than the previous year, but Britain's Health Protection Agency said the pace of the increase appears to be slowing.

Sexually transmitted diseases have been on the rise across Europe since the mid-1990s. Health experts partly blame complacency over condom use and casual sex as fear of HIV has eased.

Such infections are not reliably tracked globally, which makes it difficult to estimate how bad the problem is or 바카라사이트 - http://www.edreedsings.com/contact/ to draw comparisons between countries. Britain is the only country that produces these statistics in a systematic way, the World Health Organization said.

In the most recent global report on the topic, the WHO estimated that in 1999, 340 million new cases of curable sexually transmitted infections occurred worldwide in people aged between 15 and 49.

Apart from being serious diseases in their own right, sexually transmitted infections make it up to 10 times easier for the AIDS virus to spread through sex.

That link is particularly worrying in developing countries hit hard by the HIV epidemic. The United Nations health agency estimates that proper control of those diseases could reduce the incidence of HIV infection by 40 percent.

Sexual health campaigners also blame Britain's problem on delays in treatment, inadequate sex education and long waiting lists at clinics. Waiting lists are an oft-repeated complaint against the British state-funded national health system.

"It is a scandal that the service we offer patients today is worse than it was 90 years ago," said Dr. James Johnson, chairman of the British Medical Association. "During the First World War, a free, rapid and totally confidential service was set up to treat sexually transmitted infections. Nearly a century later, patients ... can wait up to six weeks for an appointment. What use is that?"

Delays in treatment give the diseases more opportunity to spread.

However, health officials said the increases were also partly attributable to more people coming forward for testing - http://www.futureofeducation.com/main/search/search?q=testing .

Gay men and young people remained the groups most affected.

"These are all preventable infections and it is a cause of considerable concern that we are still seeing increases in new diagnoses of STIs across the UK and unsafe sex is undoubtedly a main contributor to this,'' said Sir William Stewart, chairman of the health agency.

"This is the time of year when many young people go on holiday and these figures are a timely reminder of how important it is for people to take responsibility for their own and their partners' sexual health, and to use a condom with new and casual sexual partners," he said.

The largest increases were seen in syphilis, with cases up by 28 percent, and chlamydia, which can cause infertility and is often called the silent infection because it can have no symptoms.

While cases of genital warts increased by 2 percent, gonorrhea went down by 3 percent, from 25,065 infections to 24,309 infections, and genital herpes also dropped by 2 percent, from 18,432 cases to 17,990 cases.

Around 700,000 people are diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease every year. Infections soared during the 1990s as medical advances in AIDS turned HIV infection from a death sentence into a manageable disease.

"Any reduction in the dramatic increases in the numbers of STI cases of the past five years is to be welcomed," Dr Angela Robinson, president of the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV.

But Johnson of the British Medical Association said the latest figures were nonetheless depressing.

Despite the relatively modest 4 percent increase last year, since 1995, the number of infections has increased by 57 percent. Chlamydia almost tripled, while cases of syphilis increased by more than 1,000 percent.

By Emma Ross

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Manafort's trip to Ecuador and what he discussed regarding Assange, has become a subject of speculation in recent weeks. Manafort recently dismissed a story that he met with Assange in person during the 2016 campaign - http://hararonline.com/?s=campaign as "false and deliberately libelous." On Monday, The New York Times reported that Manafort discussed Assange's fate with Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno at least twice.

A deal between Ecuador and China would likely have been quite lucrative for Manafort, who was styling himself as an international power broker during his mid-2017 meeting with Moreno. But Moreno turned the conversation to Assange, who has resided in Ecuador's London embassy since 2012.

"When Mr. Manafort met with President Moreno of Ecuador to discuss the China Development Fund, the president raised with Mr. Manafort his desire to remove Julian Assange from Ecuador's embassy," Manafort spokesman Jason Maloni told CBS News. "Mr. Manafort listened but made no promises as this was ancillary to the purpose of the meeting. There was no mention of Russia at the meeting."

Assange is wanted by both U.S. and 카지노사이트 - http://aroopgroup.com/ British authorities, making his refuge at the London embassy a sticking point between Ecuador and the two world powers. Moreno has in the past indicated that he would like to find a way to resolve the impasse, at the Times reported that he has considered giving him a diplomatic post in Russia. The U.K., however, scuttled that plan, informing Ecuador that Assange would be arrested, should he ever leave the embassy.

Assange and WikiLeaks are also players in the investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election. President Trump and his allies were regular cheerleaders of WikiLeaks' dissemination of hacked Democratic Party emails. However, U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that the emails were hacked by Russian government officials.

In August, Manafort was found guilty on eight counts of financial crimes and then later pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and conspiracy against the U.S. He agreed to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office in September, but prosecutors said that Manafort broke that agreement by lying to them about "a variety of subject matters." 

The number of infections last year -- 708,083 -- was 4 percent higher than the previous year, but Britain's Health Protection Agency said the pace of the increase appears to be slowing.

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Such infections are not reliably tracked globally, which makes it difficult to estimate how bad the problem is or to draw comparisons between countries. Britain is the only country that produces these statistics in a systematic way, the World Health Organization said.

In the most recent global report on the topic, the WHO estimated that in 1999, 340 million new cases of curable sexually transmitted infections occurred worldwide in people aged between 15 and 카지노사이트 - http://fundacjaestyma.org.pl/ 49.

Apart from being serious diseases in their own right, sexually transmitted infections make it up to 10 times easier for the AIDS virus to spread through sex.

That link is particularly worrying in developing countries hit hard by the HIV epidemic. The United Nations health agency estimates that proper control of those diseases could reduce the incidence of HIV infection by 40 percent.

Sexual health campaigners also blame Britain's problem on delays in treatment, inadequate sex education and long waiting lists at clinics. Waiting lists are an oft-repeated complaint against the British state-funded national health system.

"It is a scandal that the service we offer patients today is worse than it was 90 years ago," said Dr. James Johnson, chairman of the British Medical Association. "During the First World War, a free, rapid and totally confidential service was set up to treat sexually transmitted infections. Nearly a century later, patients ... can wait up to six weeks for an appointment. What use is that?"

Delays in treatment give the diseases more opportunity to spread.

However, health officials said the increases were also partly attributable to more people coming forward for testing.

Gay men and young people remained the groups most affected.

"These are all preventable infections and it is a cause of considerable concern that we are still seeing increases in new diagnoses of STIs across the UK and unsafe sex is undoubtedly a main contributor to this,'' said Sir William Stewart, chairman of the health agency.

"This is the time of year when many young people go on holiday and these figures are a timely reminder of how important it is for people to take responsibility for their own and their partners' sexual health, and to use a condom with new and casual sexual partners," he said.

The largest increases were seen in syphilis, with cases up by 28 percent, and chlamydia, which can cause infertility and is often called the silent infection because it can have no symptoms.

While cases of genital warts increased by 2 percent, gonorrhea went down by 3 percent, from 25,065 infections to 24,309 infections, and genital herpes also dropped by 2 percent, from 18,432 cases to 17,990 cases.

Around 700,000 people are diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease every year. Infections soared - http://data.gov.uk/data/search?q=Infections%20soared during the 1990s as medical advances in AIDS turned HIV infection from a death sentence into a manageable disease.

"Any reduction in the dramatic increases in the numbers of STI cases of the past five years is to be welcomed," Dr Angela Robinson, president of the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV.

But Johnson of the British Medical Association said the latest figures were nonetheless depressing.

Despite the relatively modest 4 percent increase last year, since 1995, the number of infections has increased by 57 percent. Chlamydia almost tripled, while cases of syphilis increased by more than 1,000 percent.

By Emma Ross