Humans have four different blood types – eight if you count Rh Positive and Negative. And according to a recent Swedish study, there are...

The most obvious sign of a heart attack is intense chest pain, as if an elephant were sitting on your chest. It’s also the most prevalent...

When it comes to surgery for older adults, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that “In modern surgery, it’s a rare event to...

In a few cases, yes. But many, many more deaths are caused by the fear of the coronavirus. “Nearly everyone dying of COVID-19 has...

No one ever said that unpaid family caregivers have it easy. Some 34.2 million spend almost 26 hours a week helping with dressing and...

It’s a smartphone with either FaceTime or Google Duo. By eliminating travel time to and from doctors’ offices, along with time-wasting...

Getting seven to nine hours of sleep a night is important for maintaining good health. The average American gets less than seven. Given...

Tens of millions of Americans have been diagnosed with a condition that’s painless, has no symptoms, and is detectable only from...

Bacteria are one-cell organisms – and they’re not brain cells. Yet, they’re smart enough to become “increasingly unique (i.e.,...

Not very well, according to Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, the Belgian mathematician who devised the Body Mass Index in 1832. Quetelet...

There’s an old rule of thumb about drinking eight glasses of water a day. Is that enough? Too little? Or too much? The U.S. National...

This past August, I wrote about how COVID workarounds like remote working, telemedicine, and online grocery shopping and other services...

COVID-19 notwithstanding, the number one cause of death in the United States is heart disease. And one of the leading causes of heart...

In an effort to ensure good care, Virginia law requires senior care agencies like Senior Insights to have a Registered Nurse perform...

Being a family caregiver has never been easy. But now, with all the added stresses from the pandemic, it’s harder than ever – so much...

Buying groceries and other household items in bulk has always offered the chance to save money. Today, particularly for seniors, it also...

If you subtract the statistics from just three states – New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, which account for 10% of the population...

Last month, as Virginia was starting to reopen, I wrote about the advantages of using telemedicine for primary care. It turns out that,...

The older we get, the more prescription medicines we seem to need – sometimes too many. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 68...

Today, most of Virginia starts reopening. From today until at least the end of the month, restaurants, bars, breweries, wineries, places...