Annually, osteoporosis affects up to 37 million people worldwide over 55. If left untreated, this chronic condition often leads to a loss of independence and decreased quality of life. Since you ...

Oct. 30, 2019 — About half of all women in the U.S. will suffer a bone fracture due to osteoporosis. For women, the incidence of this condition is greater than that of heart attack, stroke and breast ...

But what if that pain doesn’t go away? It could be a stress fracture—a crack in the bone caused by repeated stress rather ...

P.C. ANSWER: The FRAX score is a way of combining a person’s measured bone density with clinical risk factors like age, sex and weight to provide an estimate of the fracture risk. Most ...