Women's Health
Bone Density Scans: Why Osteoporosis Is Usually Found After the First Fracture
A DEXA scan takes ten minutes and involves less radiation than a cross-country flight. It is also badly underused.
LabAdvisor turns America's most-searched preventive health questions into clear, current, plain-English guides — what each screening measures, who needs it, when to start, and how to read the result you get back.
Published Aug 5, 2026
Annual low-dose CT can cut lung cancer deaths substantially, yet only a small fraction of eligible Americans are screened.
Six areas where early testing changes outcomes the most.
Screening guidance, lab results and prevention, updated for 2026.
A DEXA scan takes ten minutes and involves less radiation than a cross-country flight. It is also badly underused.
Most sexually transmitted infections cause no symptoms at all. Screening is quick, often free, and increasingly available at home.
Coronary calcium scoring, Lp(a) and ApoB answer a question a standard risk calculator cannot: is there plaque in there right now?
A CBC costs less than lunch and screens for anemia, infection, clotting problems and blood cancers all at once. Here is how to read it.
Fatigue, weight change, brain fog and cold hands send millions of Americans for a thyroid panel each year. Here is what it can and cannot tell you.
It is one of the most ordered lab tests in the country and one of the most misunderstood. Here is when the test is worth doing.
Everything else published so far this year.
One in five Americans will develop skin cancer. A ten-minute monthly habit and a yearly look from a professional change the odds enormously.
No test in preventive medicine is argued about more. The current answer is not yes or no — it is a conversation, and here is how to have it.
The recommended starting age moved. Dense breast notifications arrived. Here is how to build a screening plan that fits your risk.
Colonoscopy is not the only path. Stool-based tests, CT colonography and blood tests all count, as long as you actually do one.
More than one in three American adults has prediabetes. Most have no idea — and most of them can still turn it around.
Nearly half of American adults have high blood pressure, and a large share do not know it. The test takes ninety seconds.
Four numbers on one sheet of paper drive some of the biggest decisions in preventive medicine. Here is how to read them without panicking.
A checkup is only as good as the questions asked and the tests ordered. Here is what belongs on the list at 25, 45 and 65 — and what usually does not.