The bone density test your doctor forgot to order You turned 65, got your Medicare card, and scheduled your annual checkup.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Preparing for a medical test often triggers health anxiety, making it easy to worry about hidden conditions and care needs. While ...

But Dr. Khosla, who studies what are called sentinel fractures, or bone breaks early in life that can signal problems down the line, says that women who’ve broken a bone from a light-impact fall at ...

Osteoporosis is a bone disease that’s common in the United States, affecting almost 20 percent of women and 5 percent of men over age 50. Osteoporosis occurs when bones are weakened by hormone shifts ...

(BPT) – Most people have heard of osteoporosis, but many people don’t put much thought into their own bone health. However, in the United States, 54 million people age 50 and over either have or are ...

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 ...

Forty-year-olds are getting informational DEXA scans (the X-ray standard for measuring bone density), and new age skeletal-strengthening health centers like OsteoStrong have popped up from New York to ...