I'm a woman of 54 with somewhat limited mobility due to back pain.

You can avoid a life-altering fracture in the future by adjusting your lifestyle now.

After 50, bone loss can speed up, especially around menopause, when falling estradiol can weaken bone mass faster. Felice ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I’m a woman of 54 with somewhat limited mobility due to back pain. Perhaps for this reason, my primary care physician ordered a DEXA scan in 2023 and again in 2026. I was alarmed when ...

A 12-year-old lowland gorilla at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park underwent a successful mastoidectomy to treat an infection ...

UC San Diego Health surgeons performed a first-of-its-kind procedure on a 12-year-old gorilla with a skull infection.

Fractures of the femoral neck are not simply due to insufficient bone density. Also significant is their nanostructure—the ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new dinosaur species in Thailand's Kalasin Province. This plant-eating giant, Uragasaurus ...

Mizani, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park's 12-year-old male western lowland gorilla, had sinusitis and mastoiditis, an infection ...

A scale can only tell you so much about your health — but a DXA scan at Chico State is giving community members a much deeper look at what's happening ...