Aging is part of life. But you may be able to slow down the aging process biologically if you exercise regularly. While it is hard to control the aging of your skin, it appears that you may be able...
Diane Archer
Health care industry is geared up to fight Medicare for All
With momentum for Medicare for all growing, the Intercept reports that the health care industry is already geared up to fight it. Medicare for all’s biggest opponents are the insurance and...
Genes have little to do with how long you live
If you’re thinking that you’re likely to live a long life because your mom and dad lived to a ripe old age, think again. Stat News reports on a study of more than 400 million people, revealing...
How to keep aging skin as healthy as possible
Your skin–the largest organ in your body–serves many critical purposes, so skin care is important. Skin care is particularly important as you age, because, inevitably, your skin will...
US and European patients at risk without medical device registry
The BBC reports on findings of the Royal College of Surgeons that the rules for approving medical devices in the United Kingdom leave a lot to be desired, much as they do in the US. Notwithstanding...
Four tips for reducing your chances of getting pneumonia
Pneumonia is an infection in one or both of a person’s lungs caused by bacteria, viruses and fungi. People over 65 are at the highest risk. When symptoms are serious, it can take a long time...
Sanders introduces market-based plan to rein in drug prices
Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) have announced legislation, the Prescription Drug Price Relief Act, that is a bi-partisan market-based solution to cut prescription drug...
Avoid memory supplements
Today, there are about 80,000 dietary supplement products on the market, up from 4,000 25 years ago. Of those, some 500 are memory supplement products. The US Government Accountability Office (GAO)...
Why aren’t hospitals designed with older patients in mind?
Last Saturday, I was with my mother-in-law at the rehab facility to which she had been sent for physical therapy the previous evening, post hospital discharge, to regain the strength she needed to...
With the midterms behind us, there’s good reason to get...
With 70 percent of the public supporting Medicare for all, including a majority of Republicans, there’s good reason to be pushing hard for it. The midterm elections are yet another reason to...