Osteoporosis

A government task force is urging all younger postmenopausal women to be checked for osteoporosis if they have certain risk factors.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is widening the group of women who should consider bone-density tests. The old guidelines included only women over 65, as well as those 60 to 64 at higher risk for fractures. The new guidelines reach to even younger women, provided their risk of a broken bone is the same or greater than the average 65-year-old woman. Read more »