Compound could help seniors survive hip fractures

Up to 1 in 4 seniors who break their hip die within the year, but a new therapy holds promise to prevent further fractures and improve life expectancy.

“We?ve now found a way that we believe will stop this profound loss of bone following a hip fracture,” said Jay Magaziner, one of the principal investigators on the study and professor in Epidemeology and Preventative Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.