Early Success for New Postmenopausal Osteoporosis Treatment
Investigators at the Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University in Gothenburg, Sweden, discovered a possible new method for treating the osteoporosis associated with postmenopausal RA.
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December 2007New treatments alternatives are important since hormone replacement therapy with estrogen—the standard osteoporosis treatment—has recently been shown to have significant side effects.
Investigators began with a well-studied model of post-menopausal RA in mice. They then used raloxifene, a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM), to stimulate estrogen-like action.