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What You Need to Know About Osteoporosis

April 15, 2011 by

[HTML1] Osteoporosis is one of the most common and dangerous problems faced by women as they age. There are many alternatives for treatment and prevention that you should know about if you have osteoporosis or any of the risk factors for it.

Osteoporosis is insidious and has no symptoms until one has a fracture that can be life threatening. In this show Barbara Dehn (above) and Dr. Gracer review the most important facts about osteoporosis,  and discuss what we can do to prevent what is often a disaster.

More about Barbara Dehn
Nurse Barb (aka Barbara Dehn, RN MS NP) knows how to connect to an audience, whether it’s one-on-one with a patient, in front of a lecture hall at Stanford or with millions of people watching on television. Her warm and engaging personality puts everyone at ease as they engage in learning more about health. In addition to national appearances on CNN, NBC and ABC, she appeared regularly on ABC TV’s The View from the Bay as a health expert with memorable and informative segments. Nurse Barb is also a veteran of Satellite and Radio Media tours, engaging the audience while staying on message.

Nurse Barb’s credibility comes from her years of caring for women from ages 12 to 99 as a nurse practitioner in the San Francisco Bay Area. At the start of her nursing career, she cared for critically ill children in Pediatric Intensive Care, working with the first children to receive heart transplants.

Nurse Barb has a health blog at BarbsDailyDose.typepad.com, and is the award winning author of the Personal Guides to Health used by over 3.5 million women in the US, with titles ranging from fertility and pregnancy to menopause and breastfeeding. She is also a popular and in demand national speaker on all things related to women’s health and also contributes content to several on-line sites.

Nurse Barb has received numerous awards, and serves on several pharmaceutical and medical advisory boards. She earned a masters degree from University of California, San Francisco and a BS from Boston College.

Barb lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and son.

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About Richard Gracer

Richard I. Gracer, MD, is the founder of Gracer Behavioral Health Services, an innovative and comprehensive substance abuse program that stresses the reduction of cravings, and has been in medical practice since 1974. He is certified in Addiction Medicine and Family Practice, and a Diplomat of the American Academy of Pain Management. He edited Beating the Years, Beating Sports Injuries, and Beating Back Pain (Barron’s, 2003,2005, 2006), and wrote the popular “Ask the Doctor” column in the Lamorinda Sun for 10 years. He is the author of A New Prescription for Addiction.

Dr. Gracer is also the Host of A New Prescription for Health on WomensRadio. A New Prescription for Healthfeatures discussions with noted experts, both researchers and practitioners, on cutting edge, holistic, and comprehensive treatments for pain and addiction. Aimed at the educated person seeking more information, this series provides hard-to-get information and insights, including interviews with actual patients, on treatment of these difficult and pervasive problems.

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