Government Agencies or Initiatives

The Bone and Joint Decade
The goal for the Bone and Joint Decade is to improve the health-related quality of life for people with musculo-skeletal disorders throughout the world. The decade of the Bone and Joint will raise awareness of the suffering and cost to society associated with musculo-skeletal disorders such as joint diseases, osteoporosis, spinal disorders, severe trauma to the extremities and crippling diseases and deformities in children; of means to reduce this presently available and the need to advance this through research.
 
CSDB/NIDCR/NIH
This is a health information page within the website for the Craniofacial and Skeletal Disorders Branch. This page is designed to provide visitors to the site with links to patient advocacy groups, and professional organizations.
 
NDRI - Human Tissue and Organs for Research - National Disease Research Interchange
National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI) A NIH-funded nonprofit organization dedicated for over 25 years to serving scientists with custom-procured human tissues for use in research studies. NDRI supplies both normal and diseased specimens recovered, preserved and shipped precisely according to investigator’s specific protocols. NDRI has particular experience in procuring high-quality diseased orthopedic tissue samples from donors undergoing surgery. Additionally, normal and diseased orthopedic tissues of all types are readily recovered from deceased donors.
 
National Institutes of Health
The official web site of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The National Institutes of Health is one of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health research. NIH is the steward of biomedical and behavioral research for the Nation. Its mission is science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability.
 
NIAMS Cartilage Biology and Orthopaedics Branch
The Cartilage Biology and Orthopaedics Branch, part of the Intramural Research Program of the NIAMS, NIH, conducts basic and clinical research directed towards understanding the mechanisms regulating cartilage function and the basis of cartilage and orthopaedic diseases, and the development of functional cartilage tissue substitutes.
 
NIH Consensus Development Conference on Osteoporosis
Consensus Development Conference on Osteoporosis
March 27–29, 2000
Natcher Conference Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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Sponsored by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases and the NIH Office of Medical Applications of Research.
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After 1 1/2 days of presentations and audience discussion addressing the latest in osteoporosis research, an independent, non-Federal consensus development panel will weigh the scientific evidence and write a draft statement that it will present to the audience on the 3rd day. The consensus development panel’s statement will address the following key questions:

What is osteoporosis and what are its consequences?
How do risks vary among different segments of the population?
What factors are involved in building and maintaining skeletal health throughout life?
What is the optimal evaluation and treatment of osteoporosis and fractures?
What are the directions for future research?
For a complete overview of this conference, along with an updated agenda and registration, travel, and lodging information, please visit the NIH Consensus Development Program web site.