Are you due for a bone density test? The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force announced updated osteoporosis screening guidelines on January 14, 2025. Women 65 years or older, or postmenopausal women ...

This article was reviewed by Julia Switzer, MD, FACOG. Key takeaways: Women are more likely to have osteoporosis than men, ...

Newly updated guidelines can help women decide when to have a bone density tested to determine their risk of fracture and perhaps get treatment that can lessen it. But the new guidelines may further ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. May is National Women’s Health Month, and I would like to take this opportunity to focus on the importance of Osteoporosis screening for the prevention ...

Osteoporosis occurs so much more commonly in women, for whom medical guidelines recommend universal screening after age 65, that a man who was not a health care professional might not have thought ...

May 5, 2009 (Chicago, Illinois) — The densitometry screening rate is less than 16% in postmenopausal black women with risk factors for osteoporosis, and primary-care physicians are even less likely ...

UPPER NYACK, N.Y. & SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Global Healthy Living Foundation Australia (GHLF Australia) is proud to announce its collaboration with The Bone Bus, an Australian traveling bone ...

The guidelines, issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, suggest that all women 65 and older undergo bone density screening, a brief, noninvasive, safe and inexpensive test covered by ...