Spine Universe Author Biography

Daniel Toft, MD, PhD is an endocrinology fellow at Northwestern University in Chicago. He completed his undergraduate education at Brown University before earning his medical degree at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. He also earned his PhD from Northwestern, where his research focused on hormones in pregnancy and disease. Currently he is engaged in translational breast cancer research. His clinical fellowship is in general endocrinology, however he is especially interested in bone health and thyroid cancer.

SpineUniverse articles from Daniel J. Toft, MD, PhD

• Forteo Injections for Osteoporosis
  If you are post-menopausal and at a high risk from fractures, forteo injections may be a good treatment option for you. Forteo, the branded name of teriparatide, is a daily injection of a synthetic version of your body's own parathyroid hormone.