Swiss Firm Touts Osteoporosis Treatment (written by Biloine Young @ OTW)
The Worldwide, an osteoporotic bone breaks every 3 seconds. A particular scourge for women (although men are also affected) osteoporosis plagues approximately 200 million individuals. The onslaught is relentless. About one-tenth of women aged 60 are affected. That number jumps to one-fifth of women aged 70 and up to two-fifths of women age 80. Osteoporosis affects an estimated 75 million people in Europe, the US and Japan.
The Ozics Group, a Swiss biotech firm, believes it has found a treatment for osteoporosis. It has developed a technology platform, known as Ozics Comp06, which the company claims enables a transcutaneous repair of fractures on load-bearing bones such as hips.
A primary method to treat such factures has been to use metallic hardware such as plates, screws and pins combined with bone cement known as Poly-Methyl-Methlacrylate (PMMA). PMMA is supplied as a powder and a liquid that are mixed together to form a dough-like resin. It is applied surgically with a spatula or syringe where it hardens on the bone.
In recent biomechanical studies at the AO Development Institute, Davos, Switzerland. ...
