Tag: Health & Medicine

On August 1, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services issued a final rul that would ...

Adult survivors of childhood cancer should be screened for financial problems that might cause them to delay or skip medical ...

  End-of-life healthcare spending in the United States is not wasteful, a new study says; many recipients of such expenditures ...

Stopping long-term opioid treatment does not make chronic, non-cancer-related pain worse and, in some cases, makes it better, Washington State ...

Senators Susan Collins,(R-ME) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) have introduced the "Promoting Access to Diabetic Shoes Act," legislation that would give ...

Sasser tests the prosthetic ankle. Photograph courtesy of Vanderbilt University. The Vanderbilt University lab of Michael Goldfarb, PhD, has completed ...

AARP and AARP Foundation have asked the U.S. District Court to accept an amicus brief supporting the constitutionality of the ...

Physician satisfaction scores on online third-party review sites tend to be skewed and can easily mislead patients, according to a ...

A study has found that older adults seem to be more motivated by scheduled workouts, including the role of a ...

The trial will test functionality, gauge the effect on the children's quality of life, and determine how they use the ...

AARP Executive Vice President and Chief Advocacy & Engagement Officer Nancy LeaMond released the following statement in response to President ...

A sudden loss of net worth in middle or older age is associated with a significantly higher risk of death, ...

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is encouraging people across the country to get moving in honor of its fourth annual ...

The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) has released it latest webcast in which General Counsel ...

According to a National Poll on Healthy Aging, few older adults use medical marijuana, but the majority support its use ...

Adults who have undergone successful cancer treatment years or decades ago become fatigued more quickly than their peers who don't ...

Max Ortiz Catalan, PhD, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, who conducts research using augmented reality to reduce phantom limb ...

Weight training or cardio? For older adults trying to slim down, pumping iron might be the way to go. Photograph ...

Adding notes to their personal medical charts—a task typically handled only by medical professionals—may help patients feel more involved with ...

The percentage of cancer survivors without health insurance decreased substantially after implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), reports a ...

While military veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have often been prescribed therapeutic horseback riding (THR) as a complementary ...

Following is a statement from the organization:The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is deeply disappointed by the Centers for Medicare and ...

People may be more likely to stick to exercise if they walk in groups, according to a paper published in ...

An open-access case study, published January 3 in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, addressed the prosthetic needs of a forensic pathologist who ...

Donating blood is a tangible way to help people who are struggling with serious health conditions, yet many people may ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS) have received $500,000 of a combined $7.5 ...

The Amputee Coalition announced that John Register and William Passig Perno, MBA, have been named to the board of directors ...

Fairfield University's Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies is launching a three-day method acting program to train ...

Although adult coloring books can reduce stress and are often advertised as art therapy, art therapists contend that such a ...

Retail prices for 768 prescription drugs commonly used by older adults increased by an average of 6.4 percent in 2015, ...

Education is the key to getting patients to share their medical records electronically with healthcare providers, according to a study ...

Most older Americans take multiple medicines every day. But a new poll suggests they don't get–or seek–enough help to make ...

The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) has released a webcast in which General Counsel Peter ...

Physicians and other healthcare providers who received gifts from pharmaceutical companies were much more likely to prescribe a higher number ...

November 1 was the first day health insurance exchanges began enrollment through the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) Healthcare.gov. Wake Forest ...

How Pain Can Steal Your Life—and the Tools to Take It Back

Faced with a rapid increase in the number of caregivers in the workplace, Northeast Business Group on Health (NEBGH) and ...

People with amputations in the United States are facing a "tech gap" in which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

The American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association (AOPA) says it will be watching and waiting for the consequences of President Trump's ...

On October 13, AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration's announcement that ACA ...

Recently, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a "Medicare for All" proposal that would create a single-payer healthcare system in the ...

Joe Baker, president of the Medicare Rights Center, issued the following statement in response to the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson Proposal:   Recent ...

While substantial research has established the importance of doctor-patient relationships in facilitating the healing process, few studies have explored patients' ...

The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) has released a webcast in which NAAOP General Counsel ...

What if people were able to regrow missing limbs just like a salamander? Could the future of treating amputations include ...

Health Insurance, Healthcare Costs, and Threats to Your Financial Future

A federal court has ruled favorably for workers in an AARP suit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that ...

The American Psychological Association (APA) has launched a comprehensive online resource to help psychologists and other mental health professionals, primary ...

Following is a statement from the American Diabetes Association (August 15):   The American Diabetes Association (Association) is deeply concerned ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the average basic premium for a Medicare Part D prescription ...