Sigmund: Glaucoma is time-sensitive. If pressures stay high, vision can be lost in days. If you don’t have a pressure reading, someone might start steroids and recheck too late, and you can lose the ...

Ditch the expensive lab tests—this simple bodyweight challenge reveals the true state of your cardiovascular health and upper ...

The Jockey Club Smart Geriatric Day Hospital Project, launched last year by Pok Oi Hospital, reduces the need for in-hospital ...

Telehealth geriatric assessment significantly improved short-term outcomes for older adults with advanced cancers. Brazilian study showed better physical function, psychological status, and quality of ...

Background Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) has negative implications for people’s lives, but is often underdiagnosed in the elderly. There is a shortage of instruments to assess geriatric anxiety.

ABSTRACT: Background: To delay the onset of dementia with age, it is important for healthy adults to take preventive measures before cognitive decline occurs. Cognitive function decline is often ...

Introduction Sarcopenia is highly prevalent in geriatric rehabilitation patients. Resistance exercise training (RET) combined with protein supplementation is recommended to increase muscle mass and ...

Understanding how Alzheimer's disease is diagnosed can help patients, family members, and loved ones ensure they're getting a proper diagnosis. The process will likely involve several different ...

Over the years, there’s been a trend that has raised some concern – women choosing to put off having children until their late 30s. As my husband and I chose to move to the UAE in 2019, starting our ...

Between 2010 and 2020, the number of Americans over the age of 65 grew faster than it had in more than 100 years. The American population is older than it’s ever been, with more than 55 million people ...