Because there are typically no symptoms until the first fracture occurs, osteoporosis is considered a silent disease. Some call it a silent killer. Osteoporosis is a bone disease characterized by ...

An excellent new tool that uses a technology called microindentation can measure the health of bone tissue directly and safely. Bone fractures are the bane of people with unhealthy or fragile bones.

Junk Food May Erode Bones Long Before Old Age, Study Finds In A Nutshell A 12-year study of more than 163,000 adults found ...

Ronald Klein was biking around his neighborhood in North Wales, Pennsylvania, in 2006 and tried to jump a curb. “But I was going too slow — I didn’t have enough momentum,” he recalled. As the bike ...

Many women do not consume enough calcium, increasing their risk of weak bones and osteoporosis as they age. Experts say women ...

Jay Manuel and Pamela Chavez may live with a rare disorder that’s physically and mentally “taxing,” but they don’t believe there’s anything “bad” about their lives together. Combined, the two — who ...

More than two million people live with osteoporosis, a disease which causes one Australian to be admitted to hospital every five to six minutes, doctors say. The federal government has listed a new ...