Medicare covers bone density scans once every 2 years or more frequently if medically necessary. If you meet eligibility requirements and use a facility that accepts Medicare, there are no ...

The latest news to come out regarding osteoporosis is that testing for men tends to fall through the cracks. While women's bone health is often followed closely by their primary care and ob-gyn ...

With age, virtually everyone loses bone density, a process that typically starts at age 30 and accelerates rapidly in women past menopause who do not take supplemental estrogen. In men, who enter ...

Question: I am 62-year-old woman who has been fairly healthy most of my life. I try to walk daily and eat right. I’ve never had a fracture or bone health issues. But after my annual physical this year ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older women with thin bones should be screened every year and those with denser bones can safely wait up to 17 years to have their next bone mineral density test, according ...

For many seniors, it may not be worthwhile to undergo frequent imaging tests to see if they're at risk for broken bones, a new study suggests. Repeating a bone-mineral-density test four years after ...

The overall rates of BMD testing in this study were very low. Physicians did consider some risk factors (age, race, and weight) when deciding about whom to screen but did not include others (smoking, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Repeat bone density testing in middle-aged and older adults can be delayed for intervals of up to 5 years if they don't have risk factors for bone loss, findings from a ...

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

Bone-density tests will be offered at Longs Drugs on Sutton Way from 10 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. March 18. The painless, noninvasive scan of the forearm takes just seven minutes. It uses 1/50th the radiation ...

The first time I realized my bones weren’t quite the silent partners I thought they were, I was reaching for a laundry basket. Not falling off a ladder, not running a marathon, just the laundry. There ...