Fact checked by Nick Blackmer Routine bone density scans, known as DEXA scans, are generally recommended beginning at age 65 ...

(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 ...

New science on bone density after 50 includes a surprising food finding from Penn State. Here is everything researchers say ...

Extremely low rates of testing of bone mineral density (BMD), as recommended by recent guidelines, were found in a nationwide study of older men receiving androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for the ...

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 ...

Bone densitometry scans may be a novel, noninvasive, and scalable way to identify older women at risk of developing dementia, new research suggests. In an analysis of more than 900 study participants, ...

The build-up of calcium in a major blood vessel is linked with a 39 per cent higher risk of serious falls in older women, new Edith Cowan University (ECU) research has found. This calcium build-up, ...

Figure 1. A 74-y-old man at initial staging with PSMA PET that demonstrates low uptake in primary tumor (A, arrowhead) and left pelvic side wall node (A, arrow). Bone scan was read as positive by 2 of ...