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Record Number of Abstracts Submitted for Largest Scientific Congress Specifically Devoted to Osteoporosis

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June 01, 2006

TORONTO, June 1 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- The IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis (IOF WCO), the world's largest scientific congress devoted specifically to the bone disease osteoporosis, opens on Friday June 2, in Toronto, Canada. Professor Rene Rizzoli, chairman of the IOF WCO Scientific Committee, noted that this year's congress attracted 720 abstracts, more than twice the number of the previous congress held in 2004 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On June 2, 2006, in one of the Congress highlights, space explorers and earth-bound medical experts will examine the links between immobility and bone health at the Bone Research in Space Symposium. Canadian physician and astronaut Dr. Dave Williams, who is the first Canadian to have lived in both the ocean and space, is one of the panel. As part of the 2nd IOF Women Leaders Roundtable, to be held in conjunction with the Congress, nine prominent women from around the world will call for action by policy makers, health professionals and individuals to fight the silent epidemic of osteoporosis. Themes to be covered during the five-day IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis include 35 oral presentations and more than 680 poster presentations that focus on nutrition, smoking, exercise and osteoporosis; osteoporosis diagnosis, treatment, epidemiology and health economics issues; pregnancy, infancy and osteoporosis; and osteoporosis in men. See IOF WCO http://www.osteofound.org/wco/2006/index.php Daily media briefings during IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis: Friday June 2, 2006 Time: 15:15-16:15 - Ego Seeman -- 2006 IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis Scientific Highlights - Dave Williams -- Space travel, immobility and bone health - Maureen McTeer -- Osteoporosis -- A Canadian perspective -- 2nd IOF Women Leaders Roundtable - Justine Pasek -- Osteoporosis -- A Latin American perspective -- 2nd IOF Women Leaders Roundtable Saturday June 3, 2006 Time: 12:15-13:15 - John Kanis -- WHO Criteria for indications to treatment - Pierre Delmas -- Diagnosis update - Socrates Papapoulos -- Treatment update - Thierry Chevalley -- Influence of care in nursing home Sunday June 4, 2006 Time: 12:15-13:15 - Florent Richy -- Adherence problems - Patricia Clark -- Health economics and epidemiology - Jane Cauley -- Osteoporosis in Men - Cyrus Cooper -- Infancy, Childhood, Maternal health and osteoporosis Monday June 5, 2006 Time: 12:15-13:15 - Mary Bouxsein / Yi-Hsiang Hsu -- Osteoporosis and smoking - Steve Boonen -- Nutrition and osteoporosis - Marjo Lehtonen-Veromaa -- Exercise and bone density For more information, please contact: Andrew Leopold Weber Shandwick Worldwide Toronto Tel: +1-416-964-6444 Email: aleopold@webershandwick.com SOURCE International Osteoporosis Foundation
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