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A judge in Tuscaloosa County has denied bond to Darius Miles, the former Alabama basketball player charged with capital murder in January.

A judge in Tuscaloosa County has denied bond to Darius Miles, the former Alabama basketball player charged with capital murder in January.

The commonly used Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX), which includes self-identified race and ethnicity information, and the Osteoporosis Self-Assessment Tool (OST), which does not, had suboptimal performance in determining major osteoporotic fracture risk across racial/ethnic categories in younger postmenopausal women.

The commonly used U.S version of the Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) should not be routinely used to select younger postmenopausal women for bone mineral density testing. FRAX includes self-identified race and ethnicity information, and the Osteoporosis Self-Assessment Tool (OST) does not, but both had suboptimal performance in determining major osteoporotic fracture risk across racial/ethnic categories in younger postmenopausal women. However, OST is excellent at identifying women with osteoporosis-level bone mineral density, which is the goal of these screenings, while FRAX is not. In a...

An attorney who is representing a man who has been indicted on a capital murder charge regarding a shooting that left a mother dead in Tuscaloosa has entered a youthful offender application for his client.