calcium, magnesium and vitamin D suppliements, along with other treatments, in preventing re-fractures). Their clinic model is now being rolled out to other hospitals because it's been shown to be so effective. Grant November 18, 2012 Erp, sorry. I find most of us aren't too good at conveying tone in short-form writing, like blog comments. (Me, neither.) I'm also lousy at reading it, I guess. By contrast, I guess, there are some who are so naturally gifted with it, and prolific with it, that it's hard to know when they are being sincere! Christine -- good to hear your work is being put to effect. I suspect it's a pet frustration of many researchers that their output is limited to academic impact. Christine (the public servant Christine) November 19, 2012 @Grant: no probs. I re-read what I wrote and realised I hadn't expressed myself clearly. There's another point I should make: the nurses knew they weren't making any ground-breaking discoveries by saying calcium would prevent re-fractures. What they wanted to do, was put in place a program to target people at risk of re-fractures (such as menopausal women) and encourage them to follow strategies that would prevent them from having re-fractures, but they needed to convince the hospital administration of the need for such a program. And my little bit of work gave them the data they needed to make their three-month trial clinic a permanent clinic which then got rolled out to other hospitals in our area, and is