Response to: Author response to "Kyphoplasty versus vertebroplasty for management of osteoporosis". Lane JM and Lin JT (2008) Nat Clin Pract Rheum 4: E1 doi:10.1038/ncprheum0792

Original article : Lin JT and Lane JM (2008) Nonpharmacologic management of osteoporosis to minimize fracture risk. Nat Clin Pract Rheum 4: 20–25

All authors are asked to declare competing interests before their articles are formally accepted for publication. The competing interests form that we request authors to sign asks them to declare any competing interests in “the past 2 years”. Drs Lin and Lane have, therefore, complied with our editorial policy.

Nature Clinical Practice has partnered with Medscape to provide the opportunity to physicians to earn Category 1 AMA PRA Credits™ for selected articles each month. All “learning objectives” attached to CME-associated articles published in Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology are developed by Medscape, rather than by the authors of the article or the Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology editorial team.

Finally, all Reviews published in Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology have been subjected to rigorous peer-review to reinforce the quality and integrity of the content; the Lin and Lane Review was sent to three independent reviewers selected by the editors.