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 ...

Credit: Getty Images. By 2030, the number of adults with osteoporosis or low bone mass is estimated to increase by more than 30%, to 71 million. The Conversation — Because there are typically no ...

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Make no bones about it, vertebral compression fractures are a problem for hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. Compression fractures often are mistakenly regarded as back pain or as a ...

For the past decade the fitocracy has been telling us that, as our bodies age, we should be kind to our joints by doing more low-impact exercise. Once again, it appears that a bit of well-intentioned ...

SAN DIEGO — Long-term cancer survivors who met guidelines for physical activity had a significantly lower risk for frailty-related fractures than those who exercised less, based on data from more than ...