_ High blood pressure / hypertension New Guidelines Expand Definition of High Blood Pressure By Jane Farrell article Experts are resetting the numbers indicating high blood pressure, and that means that 46 percent of U.S. adults now are … Read More→
_ Food Allergies & Intolerance Food Allergies Often Begin in Adulthood By Jane Farrell article Although food allergies are often thought of in terms of children, almost half of all food-allergic adults reported one or … Read More→
_ Medical Care Dry Mouth Linked to Dozens of Medications By Jane Farrell article In an effort to combat dry mouth, a common side effect of medications, researchers are recommending that health care providers … Read More→
_ Insomnia Sleep Health Tart Cherry Juice Increases Sleep Time for People Aged 50+ By Sondra Forsyth article Tart juice of the cherry variety Montmorency was found to help extend sleep time by 84 minutes among study participants, … Read More→
Sleep Health How to Get Your Best Night's Sleep Every Night By Jane Farrell article Waking up on the wrong side of the bed is a place weΓÇÖve all been: you tossed and turned all … Read More→
_ Medical Procedures Opioid-Free Anesthesia Decreases Post-Surgery Nausea By Jane Farrell article The use of opioid alternatives in general anesthesia is safe, effective and substantially decreases post-operative nausea, according to research presented … Read More→
_ Healthy Diet & Nutrition Choosing Healthy Meals as You Get Older By Jane Farrell article Eating well is crucial to good health, especially as we get older. The experts from the National Institute on Aging … Read More→
_ Falls Senior Health A Big Risk Factor for Indoor Falls By Jane Farrell article Although the common perception may be that older people fall most frequently during the icy winter, a preliminary study shows … Read More→
_ Exercise Joyce Hodges-Hite: At 80-Years-Young, Still Doing Marathons By Sondra Forsyth article In 1949, then 12-year-old Joyce Hodges-Hite, living in rural Millen, Georgia, 50 miles south of Augusta, discovered she was a … Read More→
_ Health Headlines Insurance Approval Lagging on Costly New Cholesterol Drug By Jane Farrell article Less than half of patients received their insurerΓÇÖs approval for prescriptions of the type of cholesterol-lowering drug known as PCSK9 … Read More→
Natural Remedies to Ease Menopausal Stress By Sondra Forsyth blog Chronic stress can be quite debilitating.┬á If you are perimenopausal or postmenopausal it can become even trickier to deal with. […]
_ Diabetes A New Treatment for A Diabetic Eye Disease? By Jane Farrell article Researchers have identified a compound that can help reduce diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease affecting one third of the estimated … Read More→
_ Skin Health Leaving the Physical and Psychological Battle Scars of Acne Behind By Sondra Forsyth article Adolescence is a stressful time. Along with the excitement of having oneΓÇÖs bodyΓÇÖs transform and oneΓÇÖs experience broaden comes the … Read More→
_ Understanding the Microbiome New Asthma Biomarkers Identified From Lung Bacteria By Jane Farrell article Until now, research on the microbiome – the system of good and bad bacteria in the body ΓÇô has been … Read More→
_ Aging Well End-of-life Decision-Making for People with Intellectual Disabilities By Sondra Forsyth article A 2017 study by researchers at the University at Buffalo and published in the Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual … Read More→
_ Pain Management Fewer Hip and Knee Replacement Patients Are Relying on Opioids Alone By Jane Farrell article Opioid use in patients recovering from hip and knee replacement decreased by one-third between 2006 and 2014, reflecting success in … Read More→
_ Diabetes Diabetes Patients at Higher Risk for Post-Operative Cognitive Disorder By Jane Farrell article Older patients with diabetes may be at a substantially higher risk of developing postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) than those who … Read More→
_ Hip Health Perioperative Surgical Home Reduces ER Visits and Death in Elderly Hip Fracture Patients By Sondra Forsyth article Elderly patients who had emergency repair of a fractured hip were much less likely to die or make a return … Read More→