Bone loss accelerates two years before menopause, yet screening guidelines for osteoporosis start over a decade later. This ...

DEXA scans are all the talk in the wellness world, with tons of celebrities swearing by them in their health endeavors. If they've popped up in your feed, you might be asking yourself—do I need one, ...

Preparing for a medical test often triggers health anxiety, making it easy to worry about hidden conditions and care needs. While a DEXA scan is the gold standard for spotting osteoporosis and weak ...

Guest Contributor Dr. Rosina Shrestha is a board-certified internal medicine physician with the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group. She sees patients at the Kaiser Permanente White Marsh Medical ...

Fitnescity Health, the largest U.S. network of preventive imaging, today opened its infrastructure to health platforms, with ...

When should women really start worrying about bone density? If you think the answer is 65, you might want to reconsider. A ...

Drinking one liter of water before a DEXA scan inflated lean-mass estimates by up to 2.2 pounds. Here’s how to get a more ...

Typically, when people say they’re trying to lose weight, what they actually mean is they’re trying change their body composition—they're trying to be leaner. A lower number on the scale could be an ...

The doctors and nurses at the emergency room in Jacksonville, Florida, were "perplexed," as Dia Thomas remembers it. They believed her when she said she was in pain—imaging had revealed fractures in ...

Educational update explains DXA testing, T-scores, fracture-risk factors and questions adults can discuss with ...

TEACHING yoga six times a week, eating healthily and barely touching alcohol, Laura Jones had every reason to believe she was ...

In fact, a Bone Health Survey by the International Osteoporosis Foundation for World Osteoporosis Day (October 20) found that 43% of women reported a fracture from a minor fall after turning 50. Women ...