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Depressing news about antidepressants

Antidepressants can work well and save lives. More than one of every eight men (12.5%) and almost twice as many women (24.3%) in their...

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How to find a new doctor

Maybe you’re new to Richmond. Maybe you’re moving across the river. Maybe your doctor is retiring. Or maybe your doctor-patient...

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When and why is it okay to fire your doctor?

Staying with a doctor you don’t feel good about can be bad for your health. You need to be able to trust your doctor, to see your doctor...

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How does telehealth compare to office visits? (The answer may surprise you.)

Let’s start with the obvious: For diagnosing a new illness, for treating an injury, for conducting lab tests, for removing staples or...

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Why your sleeping position matters

How you sleep can affect how well you sleep – and how good you feel during waking hours. There are three basic sleeping positions: on...

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Too much of a good thing?

Vitamin D is good for your health. It helps your body absorb calcium, strengthens your immune system’s ability to fight infection, and...

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Accessing your own health records will soon be easier than ever

Sometime early this tear, new HHS Privacy Rule changes will have removed some major barriers between you and your own health records....

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Some foods can change the way some meds work

Many prescription medicines come with instructions about whether to take them with or without food. Which specific foods is something...

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Start the year by taking steps to end loneliness

Particularly for older adults, loneliness isn’t just an emotional problem; it can also be a physical one. A 2012 Journal of the American...

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Mild cognitive impairment needn’t be a one-way street to dementia

Last month, I wrote that “Many symptoms of dementia can look like the results of natural aging.” A newly released study shows that some...

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8 things to ask when your doctor prescribes a new med

The older you are, the more doctors – your primary care physician and specialists – you’re likely to be seeing, and the more medications...

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How Medicare pays doctors and hospitals to give seniors better care

Value Based Reimbursement rewards coordinated medical care that leads to better patient health.

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Does an aspirin a day really keep heart attacks away?

On the basis of 40-year-old research, millions of people in their 40s and older take a low-dose (81-100 mg) aspirin tablet every day as a...

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Keep SAD away from the year’s happiest season

Every year, it comes on as inevitably as the holiday season from Thanksgiving to New Year’s. SAD is a very apt acronym for Seasonal...

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Dementia isn’t a singular noun. Part 4: Dementia treatments

At the beginning of this series, I mentioned in passing that some conditions with dementia-like symptoms are completely curable. Vitamin...

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Dementia isn’t a singular noun. Part 3: Stages of dementia

Of the nine forms of dementia I described in the previous post, at least eight are irreversible. (The one, partial, exception is Normal...

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Dementia isn’t a singular noun. Part 2: Types of dementia

In the previous post , I wrote about what dementia isn’t, and how dementia differs from natural aging. Now let’s talk about what dementia...

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Caregivers for elders with dementia now face more challenges than ever.

More than 16 million Americans provided unpaid care worth almost $244 billion last year to family members and friends with Alzheimer’s...

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Rob Lowe’s advice to caregivers:Take care of yourselves

in the decade before winning his first Screen Actors Guild Award, actor Rob Lowe was cast in a different role. “When I was in my...

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Who Needs Assisted Living? (And what kind of assistance?)

According to the Family Caregiver Alliance there’s a 68 percent probability that a disability will keep people 65 or older from...

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