Certain beverage habits may influence the bone health of older women, with effects varying depending on consumption levels and other lifestyle factors, new research suggests. Very heavy coffee ...

Ladies, don't overlook your bone health. Osteoporosis is what’s known as a “silent” disease, because it can happen without causing any noticeable symptoms until a person breaks a bone. The condition ...

Bone density refers to how much calcium and other minerals make up your bones. When your bones have more minerals, they have a higher bone density, meaning they're stronger and less likely to break.

Q: Even before menopause, and certainly since then, I have consumed plenty of calcium-rich dairy products, including large glasses of milk with meals. I have lifted weights on a regular basis over the ...

The word “osteoporosis” may call to mind a stooped-over granny with a cane. But bone loss starts long before the granny (or grandpappy) years — in fact, it’s been happening for much of your life. Like ...

Efforts to identify older men at risk for osteoporosis and treat those who are eligible received a boost from results reported from a Veterans Affairs (VA) study that showed a significant increase in ...

1 Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China 2 Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing ...

Investigators have developed an artificial intelligence-assisted diagnostic system that can estimate bone mineral density in both the lumbar spine and the femur of the upper leg, based on X-ray images ...