Long-term treatment with the oral bisphosphonate alendronate increases the number of osteoclasts and can lead to formation of giant osteoclasts, according to Robert S. Weinstein of the University ...

These characteristics can be used to assess bone formation: after taking oral tetracycline on two occasions (double labeling), an iliac-crest biopsy is obtained. The rate of bone growth equals the ...

Disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson said it was ‘nonsense’ that an open breast biopsy and double mastectomy performed on a patient ...