Prescription Drugs

You probably don’t need a reminder that heart disease is the #1 cause of death for both men and women in the United States. For women, in particular, the risk of heart attack and stroke is real, yet misunderstood and often undertreated. Experts around the world recognize that heart disease…

As the most common reason why individuals seek out medical care, pain represents a complex combination of factors, some concretely understood and recognizable with others more subjective, depending upon your own complex history. How you feel pain, how you withstand pain, and what you can do to address and manage…

The statistic is stunning, yet may be a familiar data point. A new study out of the University of Buffalo reports that from 1999-2017, more than 7.8 billion medications that can increase the risk of falling were prescribed to older adults and that deaths as a result of falls more…

To many of us, it feels like a right of passage: the older we get, the more ongoing are the aches and pains that remind us of our age and how our body is (or is not) coping. If you feel this way, new data from the CDC confirms you’re…

By now you probably know the dangers: High blood pressure (also known as hypertension) puts you at significant risk for heart attacks and strokes and is tied to increased risk for cognitive impairment and dementia, not to mention increased severity of symptoms from coronavirus infection. Given these risks, you would…

If you’re an agebuzz reader, the warning should come as no surprise: the risks of taking too many medications and suffering bad drug interactions or side-effects increase with age. It can also leave you vulnerable for all sorts of perils, from increased confusion to greater risk of falling. In fact,…