Participants must have been at least 18 years old at the time they were diagnosed with the condition. All participants must be taking methotraxate. The Women's Health Research Unit is recruiting for a six-month study on birth control. If you are healthy, at least 18 years old, have regular menstrual cycles and are not at risk for pregnancy, you may qualify. Participants will receive study medications, diabetes and cholesterol screenings, and physical exams at no cost, and will be compensated for study-related time and travel.
Osteoporosis often has no symptoms until the sufferer breaks a hip, a wrist or a bone in the spine.
Broken bones may cause pain, deformity or sometimes even death. OHSU's Bone and Mineral Unit is conducting a study of women using a drug therapy for the treatment of ostepoprosis. The study is to determine how subjects take medicine, and involves seven visits over 13 months. Researchers are seeking Caucasian, Asian and Hispanic women between the ages of 65 and 80 not currently taking estrogen. These are the groups of women most often affected by osteoporosis.