On The Record: New Regulations Address Access To Your Medical Records
April 21, 2021
Anyone who’s ever tried to get their medical record from a particular care provider, much less organize the totality of their record from a range of providers, knows that it can be a herculean task to get it all together. While agebuzz readers know from the Powerhouse Patient series by…
Get Back: It’s Time To Go Back For Preventive Health Care Visits
April 7, 2021
As the world begins to open up and your coronavirus vaccinations have been completed, perhaps you’re plotting a return to the things you’ve missed most: taking in a movie, lunch with good friends, visits with loved ones. And visits to the doctor? While that may not be high on your…
An Ounce Of Prevention: New Tests To Detect Mild Cognitive Impairment
March 10, 2021
Has this happened to you? You see your neighbor (perhaps after a long pandemic hiatus) and go to say hello and suddenly can’t remember her name? Or you get ready to meet a friend for a walk and can’t remember where the keys are? It’s one thing to have occasional…
Suspicious Symptoms: Clues That A Dementia Diagnosis May Be In Your Future
December 2, 2020
Given the “warp-speed” development of what appear to be viable COVID vaccines, it would seem that almost anything is possible with enough scientific determination and grit. And yet, for those who are afflicted with dementia or those ultimately determined to have Alzheimer’s, there continue to be no real viable treatments…
Test Taking: Should You Get The Coronavirus Antibody Test?
May 20, 2020
If you’ve heard nothing else about the coronavirus, you’ve probably heard the phrase “testing, testing, testing.” Public health experts and political pundits have repeatedly warned that the country cannot limit the spread of COVID-19 and fully open up until we have adequate testing to determine the prevalence of the coronavirus…
Cancer Conundrum: Breast Cancer And The Burdens Of Surviving
February 26, 2020
It’s a good news/bad news story. The good news is that death rates from breast cancer are declining, even if not as fast and far as we would all hope. Women over 60 constitute the largest group of breast cancer survivors, so for many mature women, breast cancer has been…