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Hello and welcome to Bone Up, the UK's first podcast all about bones and osteoporosis.

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My name is Professor David Armstrong. I'm a consultant rheumatologist at Alton

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McElven Hospital in London, Derry.

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Hi, my name is Dr Richie Abel. I'm a research scientist at Imperial College London, where

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I lead a group of scientists researching bone tissue and bone health. And I also have the

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pleasure to teach research skills to medical students.

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I specialise in osteoporosis and rare types of bone disease. And over this podcast, I

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hope to be exploring all aspects of bone health and bone disease from the clinic to the gymnasium,

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from the laboratory to the community pharmacy, from cellular biology right through to how

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to chat to your granny about fracture risk.

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My research team collaborates with clinicians, engineers, physicists, chemists and biologists.

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And we are studying why aging and disease make bone fragile and how the treatments that

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we give restore strength. And in this podcast, I want to talk about the amazing research

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going on all around the world.

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We hope you'll join us on our journey through the world of bone health and osteoporosis,

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and hopefully we'll all learn something along the way. We've lots of exciting people lined

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up to talk to, and we'd love to hear from you as well.

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So if there's anything you'd like us to talk about, just drop us a comment. David and I

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will see you again in the next episode.