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On a March morning, five-year-old Hama Moctar stepped into the General Referral Hospital of Niamey in Niger for a follow-up appointment. Just 100 days after surgery, his legs, once shortened and ...

“Despite all my efforts with diet and exercise there had been a dramatic fall in bone density which significantly increased my risk of a critical spinal fracture,” she recalls. “There are ...