Hormone injections can strengthen bones

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Weekly or semiweekly injections of a hormone that stimulates the thyroid gland can also strengthen bones in rodents, researchers have found. The hormone, called thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), is already available as a therapy for thyroid cancer patients, and clinical studies are now under way to determine whether it might also be used to fight the debilitating bone-wasting disease osteoporosis.

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