The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ new guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of hip fractures in elderly patients targets problem area... More »
LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. – Modifying the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s outpatient fall prevention program STEADI for inpatient use di... More »
PARIS – Health status should be evaluated when determining how best to treat an older man with prostate cancer, attendees at an international congre... More »
PARIS – Health status should be evaluated when determining how best to treat an older man with prostate cancer, attendees at an international congre... More »
The aging process is highly individualistic and complex, even when many confounding factors are removed, according to Ross D. Pollock, Ph.D., and his ... More »
PHILADELPHIA – Clostridium difficile infections among nursing home residents resulted in some 31,000 hospitalizations and 9,000 deaths nationally in 2012, population-based surveillance data...
Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries suffering from poor-prognosis cancer who received hospice care were found to have lower rates of hospitalizations, admissions to intensive care units, and...
Our relationship with vitamins and supplements may be approach-avoidance. On one hand, if they are beneficial and patients are motivated to take them, we do not complain. This is likely a marker of...
All adults who are 65 years or older should receive 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) routinely in series with 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23), according to a...
LAS VEGAS – Up to 30% of patients diagnosed with polymyalgia rheumatica actually have a different disease, according to Dr. Eric L. Matteson.
The proximal pain and stiffness syndrome, which is a...