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Matthew T. Drake

America's bone health is quietly headed for a $19 billion crisis

m (Credit: courtesy of Matthew T. Drake)

Today, nearly 100,000 older Americans will fall. For many, that fall marks the start of a life-altering decline: a fractured hip, lost independence, even early death.

We tend to think of these falls as accidents. But more often than not, falls and their consequences are a silent crisis decades in the making.

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