A medical research team at Saarland University, led by Professor Bergita Ganse, has discovered a new approach to monitoring ...

Loss of bone mass disproportionately affects aging women — one half of all women will experience a fracture at some point ... bone density is a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scan (DEXA ...

The research team involved found signs of a pulsar, a neutron star spinning at high speed, in the same region as the broken bone. These stars are extremely dense, and are the small remnants left ...

Credit: X-ray ... fracture to be an impact from a pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star that sends out pulses of radiation at regular intervals. Of course, the ghostly structure isn't a real ...

A composite of X-ray and radio data ... you'll notice a slight fracture in the structure a little more than a third of the way down. The particular cosmic "bone" shown here is G359.13142-0.20005 ...

The "bone" is actually a galactic ... you'll notice a slight fracture in the structure a little more than a third of the way down. Overlaying Chandra's X-ray data (shown in bright blue) with ...

The Milky Way has a broken "bone ... galactic bones are caused by energized particles spiraling along the magnetic fields. In the newly-released image—which includes X-ray data from Chandra ...

If it’s a fracture, the bone itself is more painful.” If there’s doubt, doctors may use an X-ray to check for a break. If a child has a lot of pain, swelling, or won’t use a limb ...

Not long after, ESPN's Shams Charania tweeted that Exum had suffered a broken bone in his hand and would be out indefinitely. Yet another injury hit for Dallas: Mavericks guard Dante Exum has ...

Dante Exum has 11 third-quarter points on 4-of-4 shooting and 3-of-3 free throws. The rest of the Mavericks had zero points until Dwight Powell scored with 5:45 left in the third. Mavericks have ...

Since you can’t see your bones aging, you should be proactive about preventing osteoporosis. Atrium Health’s Fracture Prevention ... A DEXA scan is a low-dose X-ray that measures the minerals ...