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Perspectives on osteoporosis research: Its focus and some insights from a new paradigm

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(1) Could future osteoporosis research begin to account for the things described in this editorial? (2) Could agencies that give grants to support that research begin to encourage that accounting? (3) Since the FDA guidelines have great influence on what osteoporosis research is done and not done, mitht revisions of the 1994 guidelines try to acknowledge those things?

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  1. Instituto de Investigaciones Metabolicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    J. L. Ferretti

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Southern Colorado Clinic, 41 Montebello, 81001, Pueblo, Colorado, USA

    H. M. Frost

  3. Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, Basel, Switzerland

    J. A. Gasser

  4. Center for Magnetic Resonance, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    W. B. High

  5. University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah

    W. S. S. Jee

  6. Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

    C. Jerome

  7. Institute of Anatomy, University of Aarhus, Denmark

    L. Mosekilde

  8. Central Research Division, Pfizer, Inc., Groton, Connecticut, USA

    D. D. Thompson

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Ferretti, J.L., Frost, H.M., Gasser, J.A. et al. Perspectives on osteoporosis research: Its focus and some insights from a new paradigm. Calcif Tissue Int 57, 399–404 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00301939

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