Are you due for a bone density test? The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force announced updated osteoporosis screening guidelines on January 14, 2025. Women 65 years or older, or postmenopausal women ...

BACKGROUND: The National Cancer Institute estimates that one in eight women in the United States will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. Next to skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common type ...

A significant parameter to explore the compressibility and flowability of pharmaceutical powders, tapped density, is extremely useful for promoting the approach of QbD and GMPs. Therefore, ...

Preparing for a medical test often triggers health anxiety, making it easy to worry about hidden conditions and care needs.

Osteoporosis is the most common bone disease in the U.S., leading to increased risk of fractures and a weakening of bone strength and structure. Now, new guidelines on who should be tested could lead ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor and has been writing about health, fitness, and science here since 2015. Beth was the recipient of the 2017 Carnegie Science Award in science ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older women with thin bones should be screened every year and those with denser bones can safely wait up to 17 years to have their next bone mineral density test, according ...

July 27 (UPI) --A second bone-density test doesn't improve physicians' ability to determine the risk for osteoporosis-related hip, spine, forearm and shoulder fractures in postmenopausal women, a ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: The results for my last bone density test show not only a T-score but also a Z-score. For my spine (L1 through L4), the T-score is -3.4, while the Z-score is -1.4. Can you please ...

Stacey Colino is a Maryland-based writer and author who specializes in health and psychological issues. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post and in dozens of national magazines, including ...