Not just your grandmother's disease: A new look at bone health

Molly Giles was standing in her kitchen one spring night in 2019, musing about whether to do the dishes or leave them until the morning, when a bone in her left leg snapped and she crashed to the ground, breaking her hip. "I passed out, and I'm pretty sure I would have died if my partner hadn't been there and called 911," the Northern California novelist recalls.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Giles, now 81, had "bone

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