Bone-on-bone arthritis is not a clinical term. However, people may use it to refer to advanced or severe osteoarthritis (OA). At this point, the “wear and tear” or degeneration is severe enough that ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Routine bone density scans, known as DEXA scans, are ...

Innate immune memory can cause one type of inflammatory condition—for example, gum disease—to increase susceptibility to another—like arthritis. Now, new findings show that alterations to immune cell ...