Norah O'Donnell shared what her Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry, or DEXA, scan results were with Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein, who explained what it said about her bone density. Wittstein also asked ...

Women at higher risk for fractures may benefit from getting a DEXA scan before the recommended age of 65. Strength training ...

Your bones could hold clues about what is happening in your brain, and a common imaging test could help uncover them, ...

In the latest episode of "Healthful," Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein, an orthopedic surgeon at Duke University School of Medicine, discusses what women should know about protecting their bones.

While speaking with Norah O'Donnell on "Healthful, Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein called bone density loss a "silent disease" and said women should be getting Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry, or DEXA, scans ...

Older adults with lower bone density showed faster cognitive decline and more white matter change over five years.

Chest CT is routinely performed for things like lung cancer screening, coronary calcium assessment and pulmonary nodule ...

Aged 46, and a pharmacist with a big following on social media where I give health and wellbeing advice, I had arrived for my scan feeling smugly confident that my bones would be in tip-top shape.

A new study links low spinal bone density to faster cognitive decline and accelerated brain white matter injury.

Here is the conclusion first. There are large-scale trials showing that drugs that increase bone density (how much mineral is ...

One blood draw, four tubes, and a free appointment can still produce a bill weeks later because the orders written during a ...