The National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF), the nation's leading voluntary health organization solely dedicated to osteoporosis and bone health, has released a new guide for evaluating and treating people with low bone mass, which leads to bone fractures.

NOF's "Clinician's Guide to Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis" is intended for bone doctors and was developed by a panel of bone experts and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. The guide features a new algorithm on absolute fracture risk released by the World Health Organization (WHO). This algorithm measures bone density and estimates the likelihood of a person to break a bone due to low bone mass or osteoporosis over a period of 10 years

Heftier paychecks and all-expense-paid travels aren't the only advantages your boss has over you. A recent study published in the Australian Medical Journal revealed that managers are less likely to contract cancer than their rank and file counterparts are.

Deborah Schofield of Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health was the lead researcher of the study. She noted that managers and administrators were significantly less likely to suffer neoplasms, or cancerous tumors, than all other level of workers

The clock is very well ticking.

Reproductive health experts are urging countries with declining populations to allocate resources and research ways to combat infertility before time runs out

An overweight or obese person is at an increased risk for developing different types of cancers, a European research analysis shows.

The researchers compiled data from 141 studies and considered the impact of weight on 15 cancer sites on more diverse populations than had been done previously. The research covered more than 280,000 cases from North America, Europe, Australia and Asia

A recent study concluded that the births of male babies expose mothers to higher levels of post-partum depression.

Experts from the French university Nancy 2 drew their findings from an experiment involving 181 women who had given birth. The scientists measured that one-third of the test subjects had experienced postnatal depression (PND)