Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medina-Gomez and colleagues analyzed data from 1,840 children from the Generation R study, a prospective, ...

Many older women get bone scans every two years to look for signs of osteoporosis. But for the vast majority of people, the repeat scans don't... Many women have heard that they should be concerned ...

For a sidebar on how this story came together, click here. Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) has long been the gold standard for osteoporosis screening. But now, thousands of patients may be ...

This is a sidebar to an investigation on the growing use of QCT to screen for osteoporosis. Which test should the doctor and patient believe? This journalist can corroborate concerns about the ...

HOUSTON – (Feb. 18, 2009) – The fight against bone disorders that affect millions of Americans will soon receive a boost from an ultrasound device being developed by space biomedical researchers. The ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Health experts for years have been trying to get osteoporosis bone density scans on the same public wavelength as mammograms, prostate exams and other routine screenings for ...

Preventive screenings, such as bone density tests, can help identify potential medical problems. Medicare covers some costs. Bone density tests may help prevent expensive reparative treatments.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Piers Morgan broke his hip last weekend, requiring a full hip replacement One in five men over the age of 50 will suffer a ...

Goo-Yeong Cho, M.D., Ph.D. A clinical diagnosis of thin and brittle bones in women is strongly linked to adverse health events from atherosclerosis, or hardening and narrowing of the arteries, ...

Image: A Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) scan of a human hip bone, left, and a human spine, right. Credit: NASA Are bigger bones stronger bones? Not necessarily, according to a recent NASA ...