Congress to feature special sessions focused on orthopaedics and public health policy in Asia

It is with great sadness that the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) announces the untimely passing of Professor Pierre D. Delmas in Lyon, France on July 23, 2008 at the age of 58. Pierre Delmas was the Founding President of IOF whose guiding vision helped to shape the organization and the global osteoporosis movement. The osteoporosis community has lost a brilliant researcher, clinician, educator and advocate who was unquestionably one of the most influential and respected thought leaders in the field.

The International Osteoporosis Foundation has announced expanded opportunities for orthopaedic surgeons at the IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis 2008, to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from December 3-7 2008.

Foundation pays tribute to long-term President and General Secretary

IOF announces that Progress in Osteoporosis is now available as a free online review journal

Diagnosis of fracture risk becomes much easier, bringing benefits to those at risk and cost savings

The IOF applauds the appeal success of the National Osteoporosis Society (NOS), in the matter of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence’s (NICE) Guidance for the primary and secondary prevention of osteoporotic fracture.