June 20, 2012 — Men at increased risk for osteoporosis should undergo bone mineral density (BMD) testing using central dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), according to newly released clinical ...

Screening for osteoporosis should be performed with BMD testing by DXA if available, and not more frequently than every 2 years. Osteoporosis screening modalities. At present, DXA is the most widely ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests women with normal results on dual-energy ...

Many women who get screened for the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis may not actually need such testing, a new study suggests. A number of expert guidelines say that women age 65 or older should get ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For the second time in just a few years reimbursement for bone density testing has been reduced quite a bit.

Alison B. King ( [email protected]) is principal of Alison B. King LLC, in McGraw, New York. Donna M. Fiorentino is the legislative counsel for the International Society for Clinical Densitometry, in ...

The “USA Snapshots” on May 2 read, “Though 60 percent of women 50 and older worry about osteoporosis, only 13 percent have had a DXA scan.” May is osteoporosis awareness month, and it seems fitting to ...

In a novel collaboration, clinicians and geochemists have developed a test that can show the presence of osteoporosis before it has a noticeable clinical effect on bones. The methods are still being ...

Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) requires phantoms for quality control and cross-calibration. No commercially available phantoms are designed specifically for whole-body scanning of infants. We ...