Preparing for a medical test often triggers health anxiety, making it easy to worry about hidden conditions and care needs. While a DEXA scan is the gold standard for spotting osteoporosis and weak ...

The doctors andnurses 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 ...

It can help identify your risks of developing osteoporosis or osteopenia.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended that routine bone scans include a vertebral fracture assessment (VFA) to check for undiagnosed osteoporotic spinal ...

Standardization of pregnancy screening prior to chemotherapy: A quality improvement project. Impact of integrating standardized venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis orders for patients with ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 74-year-old man. I have a DEXA score of -3.3. I take 1,200 mg of calcium with vitamin D daily. I lift weights and swim two to three times a week. My doctor put me on Prolia, and ...

Typically, when people say they’re trying to lose weight, what they actually mean is they’re trying change their body composition—they're trying to be leaner. A lower number on the scale could be an ...

ANSWER: There are three numbers I look for when reviewing one of my patient’s bone density scans. (DEXA, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, is the standard screening and diagnostic test for bone loss.) ...

Hone Health, which offers a telehealth platform for longevity, is integrating BodySpec's clinical-grade DEXA body composition scans, enabling patients to purchase scans directly within the Hone ...