The Earl of Munsterasked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the reply by Baroness Jay of Paddington on 7 July (WA 61) that the Department of Health is drafting a new men's health leaflet to include osteoporosis, what other measures they are taking to support research into (a) epidemiology and health economics (b) pathogenesis and (c) treatment (specific to men rather than women) of osteoporosis in men.
§ Baroness Jay of PaddingtonThe Medical Research Council is currently funding a number of research projects into osteoporosis. There are nine live projects, valued at £3,036,839, which apply equally to men and women and are either specific to osteoporosis or involve general bone research which will encompass osteoporosis. Of these, three are broadly concerned with epidemiology; five with pathogenesis and one with pathogenesis and treatment.