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Public hospital in France joins the fight against osteoporosis: French women to ...

5/14/2013 2:30 AM EST  -   SECTRA
Argenteuil, outside Paris in France, a prominent public hospital is now initiating a pilot project offering women to combine their mammography examination with osteoporosis screening in a single examination.   The combined assessment of bone health is made possible by Sectra’s patented online service, Sectra OneScreen. Argenteuil is the first hospital in the...
Post-menopausal women comprise a risk group for...

MenaQ7® Natural Vitamin K Chosen as Finalist for Nutrition Business Technology A...

4/19/2013 3:20 AM EST  -   NattoPharma ASA
OSLO, NORWAY -- NattoPharma ASA (NATTO: Oslo Axess) has announced that its product, MenaQ7Crystals brand vitamin K2 menaquinone-7 (MK-7), the leading MK-7 ingredient, has been selected as a finalist -- one of three -- for Nutrition Business Technology's "Most Effective Product Development Strategy category, as part of its annual awards program presented at Vitafoods, Europe's leading nutritional and food tradeshow.

NattoPharma Names Key Executive:Eric Anderson joins Vitamin K2 Leader to Develop...

4/4/2013 8:31 AM EST  -   NattoPharma ASA
4th April 2013, Oslo, Norway.  NattoPharma announces the appointment of Eric Anderson as Senior Vice President (SVP) Global Sales & Marketing.
In the newly established role as SVP, Eric Anderson will direct the global sales & marketing platform for NattoPharma’s proprietary products, including the MenaQ7® brand Vitamin K2 portfolio. In addition Anderson will create and maintain the North American headquarters...

MenaQ7® brand Vitamin K2 Shown More Potent than K1in New Human Study

4/3/2013 3:00 AM EST  -   NattoPharma ASA
3rd April 2013 Oslo, Norway.  NattoPharma announces today the publication of a new study on its proprietary MenaQ-7™ brand of Natural Vitamin K2 standardized to MK-7 content.  In the human trial, MenaQ7™ was shown to be a potent inhibitor of anticoagulant activity, a strong indicator of the protective benefits of natural K2 for vitamin k-dependent proteins. Interestingly, in this trial, vitamin K2 was shown to be...

MenaQ7® brand Vitamin K2 intake prevents bone loss and improves bone impact stre...

3/26/2013 4:28 AM EST  -   NattoPharma ASA
26th March 2013 Oslo, Norway. NattoPharma announces today the publication of a ground-breaking new study on its proprietary MenaQ7® brand of Natural Vitamin K2 standardized to MK-7 content. The company initiated the three-year clinical intervention study on the effects of MenaQ7 on bone health and it is now available online in the leading journal Osteoporosis International as an Online First Article (DOI...

Grandad’s hip fracture a risk factor for Osteoporosis

3/5/2013 4:43 AM EST  -   Sahlgrenska akademin vid Göteborgs universitet
Has your paternal or maternal grandfather broken their hip on any occasion? In that case there is a greater risk that your own bones are more fragile as an adult. This has been demonstrated in a thesis at the Sahlgrenska Academy based on a study of over 1,000 young adults in Gothenburg, which identified those factors increasing the risk of bone fragility in men.
Has your paternal or maternal grandfather broken...
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Prominent mammography provider in Germany joins fight against osteoporosis

1/28/2013 2:40 AM EST  -   SECTRA
The German mammography provider Radiologie Hofheim is the first clinic in the national mammography screening program in Germany to offer women the opportunity of a health control with osteoporosis detection. The assessment of bone health is made possible by Sectra’s patented online service, Sectra OneScreen.
Post-menopausal women comprise a risk group for osteoporosis, one of the most painful and costly...

Research study shows that simple hand X-rays can predict painful and expensive h...

11/21/2012 3:00 AM EST  -   SECTRA
A research team at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has conducted a study that shows how Sectra’s online service, Sectra OneScreen, provides an efficient and inexpensive method for early identification of people in the “at-risk group” for osteoporosis. Sectra OneScreen can be combined with routine mammography examinations. The study, published in European Radiology, shows that Sectra OneScreen is fully...

Method for assessing hand bone density may prevent hip fractures

11/19/2012 7:00 AM EST  -   Karolinska Institutet
A new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows, that a technique for measuring bone density called digital X-ray radiogrammetry (or DXR) used on standard hand radiographs can help to identify patients with a higher risk of hip fracture. The researchers believe that DXR, which is fully comparable with other, more costly methods, can be used preventively to identify people in the risk zone for osteoporosis – a...

1,000th woman identified using Sectra’s analysis method – European mammography c...

2/23/2012 2:40 AM EST  -   SECTRA
One thousand women in Europe at very high risk of contracting osteoporosis have now been identified as a result of the Sectra OneScreen online service. Women who can now drastically reduce the risk of painful fractures because inexpensive and effective treatment of the disease is available. Increasing numbers of mammography clinics throughout Europe are using this service to screen for osteoporosis. An initiative...