I came across a fascinating statistic in an otherwise bad news article from Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=auKPjdGB8wNs&refer=us
The piece describes how U.S. health care costs are skyrocketing, to a great extent because of bad behavior on our part (obesity, smoking and the like). In contrast, our counterparts in Europe have lower health care costs and a longer life expectancy than we do.
Osteoporosis, however, is the one chronic disease diagnosed more...
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