MONDAY, March 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Once infected with the new coronavirus, a 20-something has about a 1% chance of illness so severe it requires hospitalization, and that risk rises to more than 8% for people in their 50s and to nearly 19% for people over 80, a comprehensiveContinue Reading
MONDAY, March 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Genetic mutations that put some younger people at high risk for severe illness from the new coronavirus will be investigated in an international study. Plans call for enrolling 500 patients worldwide who are under age 50, have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and admittedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 27, 2020 (HealthDay News) — With the new coronavirus severely straining the U.S. health care system, experts are calling on heart attack and stroke survivors to take extra steps to reduce their risk of a repeat event. The American Heart Association (AHA) said current information suggests that elderlyContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Your teeth provide a detailed account of your life, much as a tree’s rings record its history, a groundbreaking study shows. “A tooth is not a static and dead portion of the skeleton. It continuously adjusts and responds to physiological processes,” said leadContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) — As the coronavirus pandemic continues its relentless spread around the world, the greatest worry has been for older people. But experts stress that age is not the sole determinant of risk for severe illness or death. “The elderly and people with chronic diseasesContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 11, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Many U.S. primary care doctors worry they aren’t ready to care for the growing ranks of Americans with Alzheimer’s disease, a new report suggests. In a Alzheimer’s Association survey, half of primary care doctors said the U.S. medical profession is unprepared for theContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 28, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The coronavirus is on the cusp of becoming a global pandemic and experts say that, if it does, older people and men could be most at risk for serious illness and death. Men have died from coronavirus at nearly twice the rate asContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Grandparents can be a bad influence on kids’ weight, researchers say. That’s the upshot of an analysis of 23 studies conducted in the United States and eight other countries by a team from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. TheContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 3, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Both pregnancy and breastfeeding may protect women against early menopause, new research suggests. The risk was lowest among those who breast-fed exclusively, meaning the baby received breast milk only — no liquids or solid foods. Early menopause is the end of menstruation beforeContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The rate of colon cancer among Americans spikes sharply between the ages of 49 and 50, a new study finds — supporting the case for earlier screening for the disease. Researchers say the uptick between those two ages does not reflect an actualContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) — After four years of declines, life expectancy in the United States increased in 2018, health officials reported Thursday. The jump in longevity comes as deaths from opioid overdoses dropped for the first time in 28 years, as did deaths from six of theContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) — If you want to slow down the aging process, it might not hurt to replace whole milk with skim, new research suggests. The study of over 5,800 U.S. adults found that those who regularly indulged in higher-fat milk had shorter telomeres in theirContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Diets heavy in red meat and fatty foods could help spur a leading cause of vision loss in older Americans, new research suggests. The study found that people who ate more typical Western diets were three times more likely to develop an eyeContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Caring for a grandchild might be the best way to fight the isolation of old age, new research suggests. This conclusion is based on 2014 data collected as part of an ongoing German survey of older adults. Among the nearly 3,900 grandparents inContinue Reading