The doctors andnurses at the emergency room in Jacksonville, Florida, were “perplexed,” as Dia Thomas remembers it. They believed her when she said she was in pain—imaging had revealed fractures in ...

Bone density scans, often called DEXA scans, measure how strong your bones are and help detect risks for osteoporosis and fractures. They provide T-scores and Z-scores, which compare your bone density ...

But Dr. Khosla, who studies what are called sentinel fractures, or bone breaks early in life that can signal problems down the line, says that women who’ve broken a bone from a light-impact fall at ...