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Do You Worry About Falling? How to Conquer the Fear
Are you less confident about your balance as you age? Find out how you can conquer your fear of falling and maintain your independence.
Get Fit After 50: 5 Tips for Men
If you’re a man over 50, it’s probably more difficult for you to rebound from a bucket of wings, a doughnut binge or a six-pack of beer than in your younger days. Bad habits take more of a toll as you age. Find five tips to help you look and feel younger as you age.
Planning to Travel? Don’t Let Heart Disease Stop You
Are you planning a trip or vacation? If you have heart disease, it’s especially important to do some advance planning. Get expert tips on how to travel safely.
Can Long-Term Stress Make You Gain Weight? Study Finds a Link
You probably know how stress can affect your mood and often your eating choices — comfort food, anyone? — but can long-term stress actually make us gain weight? A recent study says it may be so.
Low Back Pain Killing You? Try 8 Remedies (Before Taking Pills)
Doctors are getting away from treating chronic pain with opioids. Our spine experts weigh in on new guidelines for low back pain that favor non-drug options, like physical therapy, acupuncture and yoga, over pills.
Restoring Circulation to Your Carotid Artery: 2 Options
There are important differences in the two procedures – and in outcomes, as recent research has shown. Here’s what you need to know.
Does Your Carotid Artery Disease Need Treatment?
If you have carotid artery disease, a big decision centers around when to intervene and how. Symptoms (or lack of symptoms) are one factor that help doctors determine if you need surgery or not.
13 Ways to Fix Your Age-Related Back Pain
As your spine ages, you may start feeling some aches and pains. Degenerative changes in discs and joints, spinal and spondylolisthesis are the three most common reasons. Learn about these conditions and the best treatments for them.
Surgery for Older Adults: Predicting How You’ll Do Afterward
Though we often think about diet and exercise as interventions to promote everyday life and healthiness, but these lifestyle choices also influence the concept of frailty, its relationship to surgical risk and the ability to tolerate surgery later in life.
