Diagnostic Testing

So how did you do over the holidays? Were any plans canceled due to illness? Did any holiday gatherings turn into super spreader events? If the past few winters and holiday get-togethers were any precedent, there was every likelihood that COVID-19 infection rates would climb over the holidays and hospitalizations…

So what do your numbers add up to? Your blood pressure numbers, that is. High blood pressure often has no symptoms yet is the cause of substantial ill health and premature death (estimates are over 650,000 US deaths per year are related to high blood pressure). So it’s critical that…

It may feel like the days of Covid are behind us, but if that’s your perspective (and a June Gallup Poll reported that 64% of Americans believe this), consider yourself misinformed. Because Covid is not only still here, but there appears to even be an increase in cases this summer…

There’s no doubt that we have entered an era when important opportunities will exist to delay or diminish the symptoms of dementia. As we’ve been covering in agebuzz, there is now a new drug (Leqembi) available to delay impairment and decline in patients with mild cognitive impairment or the early…

If you or a loved one suffers from mild cognitive impairment or have been diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s Disease, you’ve likely followed the news over the last few months about a new treatment awaiting FDA approval. Well, that FDA approval has arrived: Leqembi, a medication that targets the amyloid plaques…

Despite being classified as one of the 4 most dangerous health issues facing us today, and despite the fact that each year, 2 million broken bones are attributable to it, there’s still a lot of mystery and misunderstanding among older adults about osteoporosis. In fact, in a recent study of…