Senior Health Blog

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic found that a daily aspirin or other NSAID drug helps prevent the occurrence of urinary symptoms caused by enlargement of the prostate known as benign ... Read More

The nursing shortage is not just a U.S. phenomenon it seems. A report from Britain finds that understaffed hospitals leave nurses with too little time to feed their elderly patients. ... Read More

A new study had found that people described as having a Type A personality, are at no higher risk of heart disease than the general population. Type A personality is ... Read More

A study conducted by the Fire Protection Research Foundation finds that older adults do not wake up when the typical household smoke alarm goes off. Most smoke alarms emit a ... Read More

Almost a quarter million Medicare recipients have been sent checks that erroneously reimburse them for Medicare part D premiums they have paid this year. The checks are accompanied by a ... Read More

Have you chosen someone to be your health care proxy in the event you are unable to take charge of your own care? While we do not like to think ... Read More

A study in the Lancet medical journal confirms what we have been hearing for years; all forms of tobacco consumption including smoking, chewing and passive intake through second-hand smoke increase ... Read More

Japanese researchers have found that the incidence of stoke peaks at certain times of the day. They found the risk of a stroke peaks between 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. ... Read More

A study from the University of Wisconsin in Madison suggests that yellow pigments found in vegatables such as corn and yellow squash can protect women from developing age related vision ... Read More

New research from Rockefeller University in New York City finds that stress causes brain cells to shrink and age at a faster rate than normal. This could translate into a ... Read More

Reasearchers may have discovered way to develop a skin test for Alzheimer's Disease. The scientists found certain enzymes that react abnormally in the skin of people who have Alzheimer's disease. ... Read More

A study from Boston University finds that seniors who have a positive attitude recover better from surgery for hip fracture than seniors who are depressed with a negative attitude. Those ... Read More

A study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that statin drugs can help prevent a second thrombolytic stroke. These drugs are used to treat high cholesterol. The ... Read More

A study being reported in the Journal of Epidemiology and Health finds that people who never marry are more likely to die prematurely than their counterparts who marry. Divorce and ... Read More

A new study has found that waist-to-hip-ratio may be a better indication of health risk than BMI or Body Mass Index. BMI is a way of measuring body fat ... Read More

A report on nursing home quality in the US has found that overall there are more bad nursing homes than good nursing homes. Overall they found that not-for-profit facilities were ... Read More

Researchers have developed a dementia risk assessment score that may predict who is at highest risk of developing dementia as they age. The factors included in the rating system mirror ... Read More

If you have severe sleep apnea and are over the age of 70 you have a 2 1/2 greater chance of having an ischemic stroke. These findings were reported from ... Read More

A study published in July's American Journal of Medicine finds that more than half of the seniors in the study reported sleep problems and also felt that such sleep difficulties ... Read More