However, this classification system assumes that weight alone is a reliable indicator of health, disregarding important ...

Looking at an X-ray of her spine, it reminds her of the Sydney ... lo and behold, you've got normal bone to work with again." The first option for a bone graft is the patient's own bone, known ...

7.“A few months after getting H1N1 flu, I started sleeping for very long periods of time (up to 20 hours, sometimes two days ...

In some cases, Dr. Ode says, frozen shoulder follows an injury or surgery that keeps you from moving the joint (what doctors ...

Women were eligible if their bone mineral density T score at the lumbar spine, femoral neck, or total hip was lower than 0 ... with the use of a dual-energy x-ray absorptiometer (Prodigy, GE ...

It’s time to rethink what ‘obesity’ means as an international group of experts says the body mass index has limited value ...

BMI provided a shaky foundation for understanding obesity. A committed policy response must now accompany a shift to more ...

"Also, they transplant the new kidney into your abdomen and it sits on top of your pelvis/hip area. If you get multiple ... the more likely that rib is to grow back." X-ray image of a human ...

Instead, people with preclinical obesity can still complete their normal ... waist-to-hip ratio, or waist-to-height ratio -- or direct fat mass measurement by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry ...

Bone is the most transplanted tissue after blood but bone banks are constantly short of donors, with only 10 per cent of people who have hip replacements opting-in to donate.