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Surprising Health Challenges of Aging

It’s best to work with your doctor to come up with an exercise plan matched to your health and fitness level. But in our senior years, we need to g...

Hearing Aid Basics

If you have hearing loss in both ears, it’s probably best to wear two hearing aids. That makes it easier to adjust the sound to what you need, whet...

Generic Drugs: Answers to Common Questions

Generic drugs may also have a different expiration date than brand-name drugs. You may be wondering how a generic drug can be sold at a much lower ...

What You Need to Know About Assisted Living

The following questions will help you and your family to evaluate assisted living facilities. Print out these questions and have them answered befo...

What Happens in Surgery

A nurse places an IV line in your arm so the doctor can give you fluid and medicine during your operation. When it's time for your surgery, you're ...

Understanding Cochlear Implants

If you're very hard of hearing or deaf, a cochlear implant may help you get back the sounds you miss. The other, the speech processor, you wear beh...

Home Health Care Tips

Do a combination of aerobic exercise to get your heart pumping (like walking or swimming), resistance exercises to build and maintain your muscles ...

Older Adults: How to Avoid Falls At Home

Make sure your light switches are easy to reach, and at the bottom and top of any stairs. Turn the lights on before you get up to move around. If y...

What's Normal Aging?

You have a lot of say-so in how you feel as you grow older -- from your heart and eyes to your skin and bones. You might also notice that you’re no...

Dos and Don'ts of Drug Safety

While experts used to recommend flushing old medication down the toilet, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommends against this because ...

How to Save Money on Prescription Drugs

Each insurance company has a list of drugs that they do and don't cover, called a formulary. It's much easier to simply call your insurance company...

Facts and Fiction of Cloning

'Twins are clones.' Griffin is assistant director of the Roslin Institute -- the lab in Edinburgh, Scotland, where Dolly the cloned sheep was creat...