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Trauma Takes a Toll on Senior Health
Find out how an accumulation of psychological trauma over a lifetime can affect how you feel in your senior years.
Healthy People 2010: Will You Meet These Health Goals?
How healthy will you be in 2010? Check these Healthy People 2010 guidelines from the CDC to start taking better care of yourself now.
More Seniors Face Injury and Death from Falling Down
Over the past several years, the frequency of preventable falling injuries among people age 65 and older has increased dramatically. Why are older adults falling?
HRT Increases Urinary Incontinence in Post-Menopausal Women
HRT (hormone replacement therapy) is a common treatment for urinary incontinence in older women. A study shows that rather than treating urinary incontinence, HRT actually makes it worse.
How Well Does Your Local Hospital Provide Critical Care?
Which hospitals in your area provide the best critical care? And which critical care services are recommended for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia? Find out here.
How to Stay Warm and Healthy in Winter
Cold drafts can make it hard to stay warm in winter. They can also cost you hundreds of dollars and compromise your health. These tips will help you stay warm, save money and be healthy all winter long.
Electronic Medical Records: Coming Soon to a Computer Near You
Soon, every American will have electronic medical records. Here are the advantages of storing electronic medical records online, plus recommendations for online medical record companies that can help you get started.
How Environmental Hazards Increase the Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke
The EPA reports that pollution and chemicals increase the risk of heart disease and stroke. Learn how these pollutants increase heart disease and stroke.
How to Get Low-Cost or Free Prescription Drugs
Do you need free prescription drugs or need help paying for prescription drugs? Find out how you can join millions of others who qualify for low-cost or free prescription drugs.
Benefits and Risks of Herbal Nutrition Supplements
Many healthful herbal nutritiion supplements also pose serious health risks for seniors and others who are undergoing surgery, or who take medication for high blood pressure and heart disease.
Aging Skin: 7 HabitsThat Make Skin Age Faster
Want to avoid aging skin? Learn which lifestyle choices cause aging skin, and what you can do to create an anti aging skin care program.
What Causes Aging Skin?
What causes aging skin? Heredity and lifestyle determine your aging skin process. Learn what you can do to slow the aging of your skin.
Seniors May Get Inadequate Osteoporosis Treatment
Two studies indicate that seniors may not receive adequate osteoporosis treatment or diagnosis.
Get Free Health Tips in the Pocket Guide to Staying Healthy at 50+
Get free health tips and advice in this handy free guide, the Pocket Guide to Staying Healthy at 50+. Here's how to order your free health tips.
Exercise Reduces Risk of Dementia in Older Adults
Here are details of a study indicating that older adults who engage in a consistent exercise program reduce their risk of developing age-related dementia.
Fewer Wrinkles, Firmer Skin for Post-Menopausal Women Who Used Hormone Therapy
Research shows that post-menopausal women who used hormone therapy have fewer wrinkles, but weigh the risks before you consider hormone therapy.
Why Being a Caregiver is Hard on Your Health
A study of the effects of stress on caregivers' health finds a surprising link between the type of assistance caregivers provide and the amount of stress caregivers report.
What You Need to Know if You Take Aspirin to Prevent Heart Attack or Stroke
For millions of older adults who take a daily dose of aspirin to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke, a study shows that stopping aspirin can increase the risk of heart attack or stroke.
How to Find Affordable HMO Health Insurance
For many seniors, finding affordable HMO health insurance can seem like the impossible dream, but it may not be as difficult or as complicated as it sometimes appears. Use these strategies to find affordable HMO health insurance where you live.
Caregiver Support
Being a caregiver can take a toll on your physical and emotional health, unless you get caregiver support. Here's how to cope with caregiver stress and take care of yourself.
How Aging Changes Your Bones, Joints, Organs & Hormones
How Aging Changes You - Learn how the aging process affects bones, joints, muscles, and organs.
How Aging Changes Your Skin, Hair and Body Shape
How aging change you - learn how aging changes the way your skin, hair and fingernails look, plus how aging changes your body shape.
10 Tips About Influenza
Influenza (flu) information - what causes influenza, who is at risk for influenza, treatment for influenza, avaian influenza and more.
Caregiver Burden and the Widower Effect
Why caregiver spouses face increased health risks - in couples over age 65, when one person becomes seriously ill or dies, the risk increases for the caregiver spouse to become ill or die as well.
8 Tips to Prevent High Blood Pressure
Adults over 55 have a 90 percent chance of developing high blood pressure, which increases the risk of heart failure and other life-threatening illnesses. You can prevent high blood pressure, and these tips will show you how.
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