The Fracture Risk Assessment Tool, or FRAX, is a free online tool that estimates your risk of having a hip or other major fracture in the next 10 years, especially if you have osteoporosis.

While there’s plenty of information out there on what exercises and diets are best for improving or maintaining bone health, it can be nerve wracking to put all that work in and still not know what ...

Two commonly used screening tools to detect risk of fracture often fail at that purpose for younger postmenopausal women of every race and ethnicity, according to a new study published this week in ...

A new study links osteoporosis in postmenopausal women to a 47% higher risk of death. Experts say the condition may ...

Most people do not realize their bones are weakening until they experience a fracture. For women, the risk of osteoporosis increases significantly after menopause due to the drop in estrogen. But bone ...

Osteoporosis makes bones brittle, and that includes spines. There are about 700,000 spine fractures every year in the U.S. About two-thirds of them go undiagnosed. Three out of four spine fractures ...

Our bones are actually an organ, and they make up about 12% of our body weight. Adults have 206 bones. Infants start with 270 ...