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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New guidelines for osteoporosis screening released today recommend testing for women as young as 50, depending on individual risk factors. The recommendations come from the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Osteoporosis, the most common bone disease in the United States, weakens bone structure, tissue, and strength, increasing the risk of fractures. It is a treatable condition if ...

Clinicians should screen women 65 and older for bone density and osteoporosis, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The task force, an independent panel of disease prevention experts, ...

At least one in five women over the age of 50 have osteoporosis. But many don't know it, until it's too late. New guidelines are now in place that hope to change that. Osteoporosis is a disease that ...

Women who are aged 65 and older should continue to receive osteoporosis screenings, according to an advisory panel’s updated recommendations published Tuesday in JAMA. Women who are younger than 65 ...

Osteoporosis is the most common bone disease in the U.S., leading to increased risk of fractures and a weakening of bone strength and structure. Now, new guidelines on who should be tested could lead ...

All women ages 65 and older and at-risk postmenopausal women under 65 should be screened for osteoporosis to prevent fractures, according to a final recommendation statement from the U.S. Preventive ...

All women aged 65 years and older should be routinely screened for osteoporosis, as should younger women with increased risk factors for the disease if their 10-year fracture risk is equal to or ...

An influential US panel may largely reaffirm its current recommendation in favor of screening older women to prevent osteoporotic fractures, while also repeating its call for more research to try to ...