The doctors and nurses at the emergency room in Jacksonville, Florida, were “perplexed,” as Dia Thomas remembers it. They believed her when she said she was in pain—imaging had revealed fractures in ...

Study finds more than 13% prevalence of low bone mineral density in younger patients with celiac disease and a rising ...

It’s just harder to build new reserves.) So you can see why proper nutrient intake during this developmental period can make or break lifelong bone health. This bone-mass peak unfortunately hits ...

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DexaFit Scottsdale has announced the availability of its DEXA scan service, a recognized method for measuring body composition and bone health, to clients in Scottsdale and nearby communities. The ...

For the best part of 12 months, my at-home BIA scales confidently told me that I was sitting on a lean 13% body fat. This was ...

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 ...