Many people, particularly older ones, have both hearing loss and balance problems. A 2018 Journal of Preventative Medicine report...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...