Report: 28 percent of healthy folks over 60 have heart valve disease
By
Kristen Fischer
Jun 26, 2024
About 28% of relatively healthy people over the age of 60 have heart valve disease, which could lead to more serious cardiovascular complications. This is according to a report published Wednesday in European...
COVID-19 cases on the rise again in nursing homes
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Donna Shryer
Jun 24, 2024
After a period of decline, COVID-19 cases are once again increasing in nursing homes across the United States, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In the first two weeks of June...
Study: Those who had COVID-19 may have more protection from common cold
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Kristen Fischer
Jun 13, 2024
There may be an upside to having had COVID-19, according to new research. If you’ve had COVID-19, it may guard you from the common cold, a study published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine...
Group defines long COVID in effort to unify healthcare entities, improve medical responses
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Kristen Fischer
Jun 12, 2024
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has published a new report that better defines long COVID. The group put together the consensus document at the federal government’s...
Study examines long COVID definitions, care models and future directions
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Donna Shryer
May 27, 2024
As COVID-19 continues to make its presence known, the world remains unclear about the sometimes-debilitating condition known as long COVID. There is no standardized definition and existing definitions...
Smartphone technology helps seniors with mild dementia complete daily tasks, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 18, 2021
Despite the pervasive notion that older adults dislike technology, participants enjoyed learning to use smartphone memory apps and were able to improve their daily prospective memory performance over four...
Just 1% of nursing homes are fully staffed
By
Danielle Brown
Sep 23, 2021
Just 1% of nursing homes throughout the United States say they are currently fully staffed, according to a new survey by the AHCA/NCAL.
FDA approves first fully at-home COVID-19 test
By
Alicia Lasek
Dec 17, 2020
Results are available in about 20 minutes via a mobile phone app, and the test is more than 90% accurate in both symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals, the agency announced Tuesday.
Severe hypoglycemia tied to cognitive decline in seniors with type 1 diabetes
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 07, 2020
Adults with type 1 diabetes are living longer, and understanding the role of this common side effect on brain health is crucial, say researchers.
Older men at higher risk for falls-related skull fractures: study
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 09, 2023
Investigators said they were surprised by the results, which showed that males aged 65 and older with acute head injury had significantly more skull fractures than females, mostly linked to falls.