The doctors and nurses 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 ...

Plenty of lifestyle and health factors can put you on a fast track to osteoporosis.

A biopsy is the only test that can confirm a cancer diagnosis. However, before doctors conduct a biopsy, they may take a person’s medical history, perform a physical exam, and order various imaging ...

Osteoporosis is a bone disease that’s common in the United States, affecting almost 20 percent of women and 5 percent of men over age 50. Osteoporosis occurs when bones are weakened by hormone shifts ...

Whole body MR is superior to bone scans in determining how far cancer has spread into the bone marrow and bones, a new study shows. The study compared whole body MR imaging and bone scans in the ...

Review finds care for some patients was "below the level that would have been expected".