Women should start osteoporosis screening at age 65, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The task force also recommends screening postmenopausal women younger than 65 who have one or ...

While osteoporosis is much more common in adults over age 60, it can strike younger people too. In fact, according to the ...

A healthy diet and exercise are two ways to build up bone density. Osteoporosis cannot be completely cured, but certain ...

FRAX has been validated for fracture risk assessment for patients with cancer, with HRs indicating an association between ...

Dear Savvy Senior, Can a person in their early fifties have osteoporosis? When I fell and broke my wrist last winter, the ...

Health care providers treating people with COPD also need to focus on the person's socioeconomic factors, along with ...

Research has linked poverty to COPD and its related comorbidities, which for many individuals with COPD includes ...

Despite being known as an ‘old women’s disease’, osteoporosis poses a significant threat to men’s health, with one in five at risk of fractures.

Most cases of dementia are caused by a mixture of risk factors. A risk factor is something that affects our chances of developing a condition like dementia. For most of us our risk of dementia is made ...

Vitamins and mineral supplements can help address nutritional deficiencies that commonly affect people who have Crohn’s disease. Here's what your doctor may recommend.

The results run counter to other studies suggesting that early menopause, defined as ages 40 to 44, is more detrimental to a woman’s health, increasing her risk of heart disease, diabetes, ...