HOUSTON — The inability to stand on 1 leg for 10 seconds or to squat down to reach the floor represent strong early predictors of hip fracture and mortality in postmenopausal women, according to a ...

A study of patients with hip fractures found that preoperative cardiac stress testing resulted in low rates of cardiac intervention and significantly increased time until surgery. "Cardiac stress ...

A simple test called the Osteoporosis Self-Assessment Tool (OST) performs better than a more complicated, web-based Test Fracture Risk Assessment (FRAX) tool for selecting which older men to screen ...

Researchers recently evaluated three tools to help predict risk of hip fracture in adults aged 80 and older, a population that accounts for 70% of hip fractures in the United States. The three ...

A new $3.4 million Pentagon grant to two universities aims to help solve the thorny problem of military recruits getting sidelined with stress fractures. The grant, which covers four years, was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bone-stress injuries affect up to 8% of military recruits across the services and cost the Department of Defense about $100 ...