Slowing down osteoporosis
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| Patrick Siemer, courtesy of tapeandglue.com |
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| Alfredo Gentili founder of Istituto Gentili S.p.A. |
The current therapy of osteoporosis is based on a class of drugs called bisphosphonates. The first bisphosphonate, alendronate, was invented in the 1980s by Giorgio Staibano e Sergio Rosini at the Istituto Gentili research laboratories in Pisa.
