October 6, 2016 Study: Good heart attack care could add a year to your life Going to the right hospital for heart attack care could add a year to your life, a new study suggests.
October 5, 2016 How long can people live? New study suggests there's a limit Just how long can people live?
October 4, 2016 Risk test may put too many in unhelpful 'prediabetes' category A widely supported web-based risk test suggests that 8 out of 10 people aged 60 years and older in the U.S. are at high risk for so-called prediabetes - but it may not be helpful to label so many people as "high risk," researchers say.
October 3, 2016 102-year-old woman checks 'getting arrested' off bucket list Edie Simms has had many experiences in her 102 years of life, but getting arrested isn’t one of them.
October 3, 2016 Too few doctors make house calls to homebound elderly The U.S. faces a critical shortage of doctors and other healthcare practitioners willing to make house calls to as many as 4 million frail, homebound Americans, a new study shows.
September 30, 2016 Doctors don't communicate well about terminally ill patients Cancer specialists and primary care physicians are not communicating very well about the end-of-life concerns of the patients they share - and according to one new study, they often rely on those patients to convey information back and forth.
September 26, 2016 Care home nurses need training for unique role The most important thing nurses provide to nursing home patients are dignity, personhood and quality of life, but training in these aspects of care is lacking, according to a U.K. study.
September 26, 2016 Patients' time at home after a stroke varies by hospital Stroke survivors may spend more time at home - as opposed to a nursing home or a hospital - if they were treated at a place that handles a lot of stroke patients or that's located in a rural area, a U.S. study suggests.
September 23, 2016 Chronic sleep problems linked to disability later in life In adults of all ages, chronic sleep problems were linked with a greater risk of trouble with activities of daily living later in life, in a recent study.
September 20, 2016 Seniors still lagging in use of internet health resources Many older Americans aren't taking advantage of e-health resources, a new study suggests.
