Everyone’s doing it. Surely, you are. Yesterday, our social conversations were about finding a partner, raising kids, career ...

At the conference, she presented a poster highlighting four rather unusual cases of osteoporosis, three of which probably ...

The DEXA machine takes a picture of your bones and calculates their density. Physicians commonly choose DEXA because it uses a low level of radiation (about the same as you would get on a flight from ...

The physician who reads and interprets your scan should also be ISCD-trained. Does the technologist do precision testing? Quality technologists regularly test their skills with precision testing.

Bone fractures are the bane of people with unhealthy or fragile bones. That is especially true for the elderly, for whom a fracture that occurs spontaneously or as the result of a fall or other trauma ...

Nancy Pelosi sustained a hip fracture due to a fall while in Europe. Days later, she underwent hip replacement surgery.

This is not surprising because there are many contributors to bone strength apart from BMD (see next section). New technologies (eg, ultra-high-resolution peripheral QCT, 3-dimensional [3D] DXA ...

But you can't check your bone density at home. You must go through a bone density test or scan that is useful in knowing how healthy your bones are. It can help in the diagnosis of osteoporosis ...

Following a special presentation at last month’s Fall Luncheon and Fashion Show, the Pembroke Regional Hospital (PRH) Auxiliary is $50,000 closer to purchasing specialized equipment needed to perform ...

Nearly 90% of people older than 50 years living with HIV have not undergone bone mineral density testing, based on data from approximately 12,000 individuals. Factors including chronic ...

but did not link it with "brittle bone disease" until she eventually had a bone density scan. The Royal Osteoporosis Society said it is an escalating health crisis leading to growing rates of ...