'bone up' by Dr Richie Abel (PhD) and Prof David Armstrong (MD)

Last Updated: October 23, 2025
The first UK podcast about all matters of bone health. Prof David Armstrong (MD) and Dr Richard Abel (PhD) will discuss bone health, bone disease and how we and our bones can live longer happier, and healthier lives.Patients, clinicians and scientists alike will all love the cast!Credits:Jingle by Jonny Fitch BMusCover art by James Armstrong
Cracking the code to prevent breaking our bones
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The lads spoke to Emma Duncan about genetic testing in bone medicine. Have you ever wondered how your genes determine your bone mass or response to bone medicines? Tune in to find out and how genetic research is going to improve your care.

BoneUP Live 2025 @ECTS - Part 4
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The lads jetted off to sunny Innsbruck in Austria to get you updates on the latest bone research. We talked to Xenia Goldberg about bone reversal cells and friend of the podcast Kassim Javaid about his highlights of ECTS 2025.

BoneUP Live 2025 @ECTS - Part 3
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The lads jetted off to sunny Innsbruck in Austria to get you updates on the latest bone research. We talked to three wonderful guests including Morten Svarer Hansen discussing weight loss medicines, Jamie Rowe explaining the molecular structure or bone and Friederike Shulte talking about MPA models.

BoneUP Live 2025 @ECTS - Part 2
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The lads jetted off to sunny Innsbruck in Austria to get you updates on the latest bone research. We talked to John Carey about the best way to use DEXA in clinics and Mone Ziadi about a new treatment for early menopause.

BoneUP Live 2025 @ECTS - Part 2
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The lads jetted off to sunny Innsbruck in Austria to get you updates on the latest bone research. We talked to John Carey about the best way to use DEXA in clinics and Mone Ziadi about a new treatment for early menopause.

BoneUP Live @ ECTS 2025 - Part 1
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The lads jetted off to sunny Innsbruck in Austria to get you updates on the latest bone research. We talked to Giovanni Adami about combining and sequencing bone medicines and the possibilities for improving osteoporosis management using AI. We also spoke to Claus-Christian Gluer about a new fracture risk prediction tool called Hive.

Vertebral fractures, never events & Martha's rule
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The lads talked to Prof Ken Poole about vertebral fractures. Ken explains that vertebral fractures should be never events because of effective treatments that patients can take. We also discuss Martha's law a patient safety initiative in the NHS that allows patients and their families to request a rapid review if they are concerned about their condition.

Personalised osteoporosis care
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The lads talked to Dr Elena Tsourdi about personalised care for osteoporosis patients. Elena is working as the Senior Consultant at the Department for Metabolic Bone Diseases, with a focus on secondary osteoporosis and rare bone diseases. We had a fascinating chat about how doctors and patients can build trust and prescribe medicines to get the best outcomes for individual patients.

Where do bone medicines come from?
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The lads talked to Professor Roland Baron from Harvard University. Roland has played a key role in characterising bone signalling pathways that govern bone formation and contributed to developing new treatments that increase cell signalling to improve bone mass.

Where do bone medicines come from?
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The lads talked to Professor Roland Baron from Harvard University. Roland characterised one of the bone signalling pathways that govern bone formation and then developed a new treatment that increases cell signalling to improve bone mass.

Abaloparatide approved
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The lads talked to each other about the exciting news that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) announced it had approved a new drug, Abaloparatide, for use by the health service. It will be available for use on the NHS in England within three months.

Boosting bone health and preventing falls
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The lads talk to Dr Friederike Schulte about exciting research which shows that mechanical loading potentiates the effect of anabolic treatments for osteoporosis, leading to bigger gains in bone mass and strength. Friederike also spoke to us about her role in public outreach as a Co-Founder at the Swiss Fall Prevention Center. The startup works in the community to share knowledge about fall prevention with people at risk of a fracture, including expert lectures in senior and residential homes.

BoneUP Live @ECTS 2024 - Part 2
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The lads jetted off to sunny Marseille in the South of France to get you updates on the latest bone research. We talked to Federico Moscogiuri, Ralph Muller and Aline Bozec from the IFMRS about supporting global musculoskeletal research. We also chatted with Annegreet Vlug and Petar Milovanovic from the ECTS academy about their research and supporting young scientists.

BoneUP Live @ECTS 2024 - Part 1
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The lads jetted off to sunny Marseille in the South of France to get you updates on the latest bone research. We talked to Thomas Funck-Brentano about highlights from last year and spoke to some of the young prize winners. We also chatted with Jeroen Geurts and Alex Ireland from the ECTS academy about their research and supporting young scientists.

Super orthogeriatrician - this time it's personal!
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The lads talked to Dr. Madhavi Vindlacheruvu about frailty and osteoporosis. We discussed what frailty is and how it can be diagnosed, as well as the patient-centred care developed and practiced by the teams at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge. Pre- and post-fracture care is more complex than you would think in geriatric patients. Dr Madhavi is a consultant orthogeriatrican at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge and Clinical lead for National Hip Fracture Database, and the Fracture Liaison Services at the trust

Bone health in teenagers and young adults
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The lads talk to Dr Jennie Walsh about bone health in teenager years and young adults. We discussed how doctors asses and treat low bone density in young people. We also talked about the effect of eating disorders on bone health. Dr Walsh is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Metabolic Bone Centre at the University of Sheffield.

Basic bone science
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The lads talk to each other and David chats to Richie about his research into bone quality at Imperial College London. Hear about how air pollution can cause osteoporosis, why ballet dancers get stress fractures and everything you wanted to know about nanoscale bone health in this month’s episode of BoneUp the podcast.

Nothing about us without us
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The lads talked to Dr Jarod Wong about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and new research for developing international management guidelines. Dr Wong is using a mixed methods approach to include patients and their families in the design of new management strategies.

BoneUP Live @ ECTS 2023 - Part 2
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The lads went to Liverpool for the European Calcified Tissue Society annual meeting in 2023. A huge collection of bone scientists creating basic and clinical research. Join us for a fascinating insight into what's hot in bone research now!Every guest received an iconic and rare BoneUp Live mug!

Bone Up Live @ ECTS 2023 - Part 1
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The lads went to Liverpool for the European Calcified Tissue Society annual meeting in 2023. A huge collection of bone scientists creating basic and clinical research. Join us for a fascinating insight into what's hot in bone research now!

Improving equity of care for osteoporosis
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Do you want to join the fight for more equitable health and healthcare? The lads talked to Prof Celia Gregson about her life’s mission to make healthcare not just fairer but better. It’s a truly fascinating and inspiring insight into how one of our generational leaders is reaching out around the world to make everyone healthier. Sit back and enjoy this episode it’s a cracker.

Dairy intake reduces hip-fractures by half
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Want to know how to eat to reduce your risk of a hip-fractures? It’s a question our listeners are always asking so the lads reached out to Australia to talk to Dr Sandra Luliano who led an investigation reporting that the risk of falls and of bone and hip fractures decreased in older adults if they received additional daily servings of dairy. The results were startling: 33% fewer bone fractures, 46% fewer hip fractures and 11% fewer falls.

Researching and developing new medicines for osteoporosis
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Have you ever wondered where osteoporosis medicines come from? The lads went on a journey to find out by talking to Dr Cesar Libanati and Dr Alistair Henry about discovering new medicines and getting them to you the listener. The interview is a fascinating insight into how to change the world and make it a better place for us all to live.

BoneUP Live From the Bone Research Society Meeting 2022
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The lads visited the BRS Meeting 2022 in Manchester to bring you up to date with the most recent discoveries in bone science.

New Treatment for Osteoporosis: Romosozumab
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Welcome to the first bonus episode of Bone UP. The first new treatment fir osteoporosis in a decade has been approved in the UK, and many countries around the world.

Pregnancy-Associated Osteoporosis
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The lads talk to Kirstie Donaghey and Prof Stuart Ralston about pregnancy-associated osteoporosis.

Breaking the Silence
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The lads talk to Craig Jones about the Royal Osteoporosis Society, a UK based charity that supports bone health around the globe

Osteo-sarcopenia: bone and muscle cross talk in aging
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The lads talk to Prof Gustavo Duque about the crosstalk between bone and muscle in ageing.

Global Challenge of Osteoporosis
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The lads talk to Prof Kate Ward about the challenges caused by osteoporosis in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Fast Track Fracture Prevention
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Dr Kassim Javiad joins us from Oxford University to discuss how Fracture Liason Services can identify people at high risk of an imminent fracture. Why fractures in people aged over 50 are so dangerous and the new range of anabolic bone-building treatments available to patients. We also discuss the need for osteoporosis to get its own speciality doctors - because it's complicated (apparently).

Never too late: exercise and bone health in older people
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Join us chatting to Dr Alex Mavroeidi from the University of Strathclyde Glasgow - an expert in exercise, sedentary behaviour and bone health. Alex gives a fascinating insight into the role that exercise can play in preventing fractures. Spoiler later check out the Royal Osteoporosis Society pages at https://tinyurl.com/nmcj2h3x.

She said He said: the art of communicating about bones
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We are excited to have a communication expert & rising star of the osteoporosis world Dr Zoe Paskins in this episode.

Calculated Risk: fracture assessment
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This month Bone UP talks to Prof Eugene McCloskey who is one of the creators of the online Fracture Risk Assessment Tool. Clinicians and patients use the tool every day to assess the risk of a serious fracture and consider treatment options.

Bone Up the Podcast: informing and empowering
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Dr Richie Abel and Prof David Armstrong Introduce themselves before kicking off the first episode of 'bone Up'. the podcast all about bone health and osteoporosis.

Breaking Bad: diagnosing and treating osteoporosis
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