Alma College is offering a new service that is designed to both improve community health and provide students with real-world experience they will take with them and use long after graduation. Housed ...

Study finds more than 13% prevalence of low bone mineral density in younger patients with celiac disease and a rising ...

For a sidebar on how this story came together, click here. Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) has long been the gold standard for osteoporosis screening. But now, thousands of patients may be ...

BMI isn't a great health indicator, because it only consists of a person's height and weight. One major issue with BMI is that it doesn't separate muscle from fat. Many doctors increasingly rely on ...

The DEXA Scan Room, located inside Confidia Health Institute’s Bristol office, offers patients convenient access to advanced body composition and bone density testing. MetaLab’s state-of-the-art DEXA ...

The Marine Corps has announced that it is changing the way it determines the body composition of its Marines, becoming the first military branch to move away from the traditional tape test in favor of ...