The lads sit down together and Richie interviews David about a career in osteoporosis care. David describes his move from lupus research to setting up the Fracture Liaison Service at the Western Trust in 2008. He explains how the service works and why advice to GPs, pharmacists and other specialists takes up much of a bone specialist's week. He also discusses the very high risk category in the National Osteoporosis Guideline Group guidance. David explains why romosozumab would be his first choice for these patients and why teriparatide is less convincing at the hip.

Prof David Armstrong is a Consultant Rheumatologist at the Western Trust in Londonderry and Visiting Professor at the Nutrition Innovation Centre for Food and Health at Ulster University. He built the Trust's Fracture Liaison Service in 2008 and still runs it. He is also a member of the National Osteoporosis Guideline Group.

The lads jetted off to sunny Girona for the European Calcified Tissue Society Congress, where they caught up with some brilliant boneheads about the latest in bone research.

In Part 2, we chat to Stuart Ralston about the TOPAZ trial for Brittle Bone Disease, Emma Duncan about the ASBMR and ECTS Societies and Kass Javaid about his conference highlights.

The lads jetted off to sunny Girona for the European Calcified Tissue Society Congress, where they caught up with some brilliant boneheads about the latest in bone research.

In Part 3, we chat to Friederike Schulte about combining physical loading with bone drugs, Mathilde Palmier about steroids weakening bone-building cells, and Melina Guillon about repurposing drugs for osteoporosis.