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Scientists say the experimental treatment could stop osteoporosis and help women stay slim after the menopause.

A cancer drug candidate called CADD522 increased bone volume and preserved fragile trabecular bone in female mice. Their ovaries had been removed to model postmenopausal bone loss.

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