Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Back to back patients, both women in their late 50s, arrived at the clinic with their DXA reports in hand and ...

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» What is the typical staff dose from a DXA examination? The dose to staff in DXA facilities is generally small. However, new developments in DXA imaging technology (fan beam, cone beam, C-arm ...

Regardless of political opinions, gender, race, ethnicity, or medical specialty, the one thing every physician agrees upon is the need to control medical spending and reduce unnecessary testing. As ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an active, 5-foot-2-inch, 125-pound, 72-year-old Caucasian woman without a history of known osteoporotic risk factors, other than demographic ones. I exercise daily, eat calcium ...

Research presented at WCO suggests men are referred too late for osteoporosis screening, with significantly lower survival ...

BMC, Lean, & Fat must be entered in order to calculate any Z-score. DXA Z-scores are available only for ages 8 - 20 yrs. In certain browsers(Firefox, Chrome), you may ...