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- The Healthy Aging Brain…a Continuing Series November 20, 2017Continue Reading
While exercise has an undisputed key role in maintaining brain health throughout our lives, promising new research points to a number of other factors that can spell the difference between thriving or just surviving the senior years. We ...
- MIND Your Diet November 20, 2017Continue Reading
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. – Hippocrates
Food’s healing properties is a concept that stems back to the earliest days of medicine, but has taken on new significance as a natural ... - Unlocking the Genetic Code: Spotlighting Pharmacogenomics November 20, 2017Continue Reading
This is the first in a series exploring some of the most promising advances inspired by the Human Genome project. From the burgeoning field of pharmacogenomics to consumer genetic ...
- Forget Me Not: Normal Aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia? November 20, 2017Continue Reading
We’ve all had the experience of frantically searching for car keys in the morning or walking purposefully into another room only to forget why we were going there, and as we age, it seems to occur ...
- Sweet Surrender: Is Sugar Off the Table for Healthy Eaters? November 20, 2017Continue Reading
As we become more aware of what comprises healthy eating, sugar is increasingly viewed with a wary eye. Evidence is mounting that a sugar-filled diet – and the resulting weight gain – can lead to increased ...
- Hepatitis C Testing Recommended for All Baby Boomers November 20, 2017Continue Reading
It’s called ‘the forgotten virus,’ but after a sustained advertising campaign and years of strong recommendations for testing by the Centers for Disease Control it’s almost certain that the liver-damaging Hepatitis C will be remembered…and for good reason. All people born between ...
- Stressed Out? A Guide to Signs, Symptoms November 20, 2017Continue Reading
“I think that you will all agree that we are living in most interesting times. I never remember myself a time in which our history was so full, in which day by day brought us new objects ...
- The Healthy Aging Brain: Making Strides by Taking Strides November 20, 2017Continue Reading
“Walking is man’s best medicine.” Hippocrates
Put away the handheld brain games and turn your focus from lifelong learning to lifelong walking. The road to sustaining brain health is an active one and taking that first step, followed by ... - A Quick Spin on Dizziness, Vertigo and Other Balance Disorders November 20, 2017Continue Reading
Common, rarely life-threatening, but very unsettling, an attack of dizziness or vertigo can send your world into a spin with simple acts like turning around to back up a car, bending down to tie ...
- The Connected Patient: Keeping Up with Apps March 14, 2017Continue Reading
The ubiquitous smart phone has boosted its useful- ness tenfold in the past decade with a mushrooming library of health and wellness apps. Some aim to help you monitor your condition day-to-day, understand and stay on track with medications, or diagnose your ...