Osteoporosis is often perceived as a disease that primarily affects older White women, but recent research has uncovered a more nuanced picture, particularly within the Black community. The notion ...

The degenerative bone disease osteoporosis is underdiagnosed and undertreated — even though it affects almost 20 percent of women older than 50 in the United States (and 5 percent of men that age).

Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

Experts have told women for a long time that certain medical conditions and habits, including poor diet, lack of exercise and smoking, make osteoporosis more likely. Now research has added another ...

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 ...

Researchers at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) have made a great leap toward predicting the risk of hip fracture among people with osteoporosis and evaluating the effectiveness of specific drugs to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The USPSTF recommends five tools for assessing osteoporosis risk among postmenopausal women. Three tools were ...