It's a fact of life: As we get older, our bones tend to get weaker, and the risk of fractures and other bone injuries threatens our mobility and diminishes our ability to live full, healthy lives. It's a growing challenge ...
Jun 29, 2022
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People who benefit the most from seeing the same GP are those with long-term health conditions and people who visit a practice frequently. With continuity of care in decline, these patients could be disproportionately affected, ...
Jun 29, 2022
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Among older people, vertebral compression fractures are very common, and those with such fractures are at high risk of incurring new ones. Findings in a new thesis from the University of Gothenburg indicate that a simple ...
Jun 28, 2022
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In Japan's rapidly aging society, elderly people commonly receive medical treatment at home from doctors who make house calls instead of in a hospital setting. The doctors who provide this service are based at home support ...
Jun 9, 2022
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A new BMC Health Services Research study from the University of Eastern Finland indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected health care service usage among patients with type 2 diabetes in North Karelia, Finland, ...
Jun 7, 2022
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A prognostic model based on clinical parameters has been developed and validated for predicting overall survival among elderly patients with primary gastrointestinal diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (EGI DLBCL), according to ...
May 27, 2022
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Obesity, an increasingly prevalent lifestyle disease, often occurs along with poor muscle mass. This condition, called sarcopenic obesity, is evaluated based on the patients' body mass index (BMI) and handgrip strength. Interestingly, ...
May 26, 2022
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Higher red cell distribution width (RDW) is associated with increased rates of in-hospital mortality and hospital re-admission among older (>60) patients, new research led by investigators at Sutter Health's San Francisco ...
May 24, 2022
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Best known therapeutically as a treatment for bipolar disorder, lithium has long intrigued researchers with its potential age-defying properties.
Apr 11, 2022
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Patients with urinary catheters often get infections. But more comprehensive preventive efforts in health care cut the proportion affected in a group of frail elderly patients from 18 to 4 percent, a study led by University ...
Mar 28, 2022
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