Tag: Health & Medicine

Kinesiologists at McMaster University have found that physical activity may help fight depression in seniors by stimulating muscle-generated mood boosters. ...

An individualized diet based on a person's genetics, microbiome, and lifestyle is more effective in controlling blood glucose (sugar) levels ...

Researchers at Texas A&M University and Tulane University have found that treating amputation wounds in mice with two proteins encouraged ...

Diabetes is caused by damaged or non-existing insulin cells’ inability to produce insulin, a hormone that is necessary in regulating ...

The healing of wounded skin in people with diabetes can be sped up by more than 50 percent using injections ...

It’s no secret that drug prices are increasing, but to what extent are rising costs explained by the advent of ...

By February, nearly 80 percent of Americans will give up on their New Year’s resolutions, but Tomeka Flowers, a Houston ...

Existing prosthetic technologies' adjustable sockets and locking pin tethers can be used in novel ways to help maintain residual limb ...

Individuals undergoing lower-limb amputations secondary to dysvascular disease were found to have depressive symptoms during the first year after the ...

Physicians at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine are pioneering the use of primary targeted ...

WELL program participant Patricia Hale works with program coordinator Jennifer Godlew. Image by Elizabeth Debeliso. A Beaumont Health study featured ...

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

Image shutterstock.com/Olena Yakobchuk A new database supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Defense (DOD) ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expects flu season to begin ramping up in the next few months. According to ...

A study published September 4 in the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation determined that while people with vascular-related ...

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 ...