Health and fitness trends come and go, and many fads don't deliver on their promises—remember vibrating belts or sauna suits?

Scientists uncovered how the protein Piezo1 translates physical activity into stronger bones, offering a path to exercise-mimicking therapies. Scientists from the Department of Medicine, School of ...

A newly discovered receptor switch that boosts bone growth could transform how we treat osteoporosis, by stimulating the body’s own bone-building machinery using a targeted drug and even mechanical ...

A research team from the Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of ...

A small but carefully monitored 20-week study reveals that semaglutide delivers weight loss in older adults without immediate harm to bone density, raising new questions about what longer-term use of ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. They’ve become particularly popular among older women, ...

IT’S easy to brush off your broken nails, especially at this time of the year. All the washing up over Christmas, the cold ...

Preparing for a medical test often triggers health anxiety, making it easy to worry about hidden conditions and care needs.

An updated joint position statement on the management of aromatase inhibitor-associated bone loss (AIBL) addresses the heightened fracture risk in women undergoing endocrine therapy for ...

The doctors and nurses 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 ...