ABSTRACTS

Bone Health and Osteoporosis: A Report of the Surgeon General
Joan A. McGowan, Ph. D.
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

Overview of Vitamin D and Calcium for Bone Health
Robert P. Heaney, M.D.
Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska

Bone and Calcium Metabolism During Space Flight
Scott M. Smith, Ph.D.
NASA Johnson Space Center, Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory

Exercise and Bone Health in Space
Peter R. Cavanagh, Ph.D., D.Sc.
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Department of Biomedical Engineering,
The Center for Space Medicine, The Department of Orthopaedics
and The Orthopaedics Research Center, Cleveland OH

Vitamin D and Bone Health in the Elderly
Bess Dawson-Hughes, M.D.
Tufts University, Jean Mayer United States Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging

Overview of the National Bone Health Campaign
Saralyn Mark, M.D.
Yale University School of Medicine

Last updated
September 29, 2005