Over the last decade, goal-directed management of osteoporosis has been developed as a concept. In 2024, a working group of ...

Osteoporosis and low bone mineral density are among the most consequential and most frequently overlooked risk factors in elective spine surgery, and optimizing bone health before the operating room ...

A UVA Health endocrinologist discusses the evidence behind vibration-based devices and what women should know before trying ...

The Bone Loss-Dental Connection Every Woman in Midlife Needs to Know ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Routine bone density scans, known as DEXA scans, are ...

While there’s plenty of information out there on what exercises and diets are best for improving or maintaining bone health, it can be nerve wracking to put all that work in and still not know what ...

Around 40% of adults worldwide are affected by osteopenia: a loss of bone mineral density. This condition is extremely common, particularly in postmenopausal women and elderly adults. It's estimated ...

You might think of osteoporosis and low bone density as things only women of a certain age need to worry about, but the truth is that bone health is really best thought of as a long game. Just like a ...

Your bones could be silently thinning for years before you ever fall and break one in midlife or older age—a fate that strikes up to half of women over 50, double the number of men. At the moment of a ...

The “forever chemicals” known as PFAS are increasingly known to potentially pose many threats, the latest of which may be child bone health, according to a new study. Perfluoroalkyl and ...

Writer Emma Rosenblum says she’s bombarded daily with hectoring advice about bone density—like most of her female peers. To try to make some sense out of all these wellness tips, she spoke to a doctor ...