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Alert over Facebook conspiracy theorists scaring women into quitting lifesaving osteoporosis drugs – as experts warn patients are risking death if they stop taking treatment

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Women are quitting vital drugs that treat the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis because of ‘dangerous misinformation’ about their side effects being spread on Facebook, experts have warned.

Scaremongering posts seen by The Mail on Sunday falsely claim the drugs, known as bisphosphonates, are equivalent to ‘rust remover’. Others say the tablets actually worsen, rather than prevent, the disease.

Yet failing to take the medication means patients face serious, life-changing fractures, permanent disability and death, doctors say.

Osteoporosis mainly affects women –

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Corinne conquered Everest despite having bone-thinning disease – just one of the vibrant, successful women backing our campaign to reduce the toll of this debilitating illness. Now they defiantly declare… we won’t let osteoporosis break us!

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As she poses jubilantly for a photograph at Everest Base Camp, Corinne Turnbull, 51, looks the picture of fitness.

Conquering the world’s highest mountain is a challenge few of us would contemplate. But in Corinne’s case, that smile of triumph was especially hard-won – as just over a decade earlier, shortly before her 40th birthday, she was diagnosed with the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.

I recently wrote in this newspaper about my own shock at discovering I had the condition, which

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