CLEVELAND, Ohio — A new bone strength testing technology developed at Ohio University shows promise in identifying women at risk for fractures more accurately than the current standard screening ...

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.

Ohio University’s radiation-free wrist test spotted fracture risk DXA missed — a potential shift in osteoporosis screening.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Increased Medicare reimbursement for bone scans is a neglected, long-term solution to the growing health burden of osteoporosis in the United States, one expert says. Fully one in two women and as ...

Regardless of political opinions, gender, race, ethnicity, or medical specialty, the one thing every physician agrees upon is the need to control medical spending and reduce unnecessary testing. As ...

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 ...