Two-thirds of women over 40 have to urinate during the night. Drinking less before bedtime and avoiding alcohol and caffeine may help you sleep through the night.
Older women have many options for breast cancer screening and treatment and should make choices based on their health, life expectancy, and personal preferences.
Bunions are best treated by podiatrists, who can suggest the right shoes, inserts, and other treatments to relieve pain. Surgery is a last resort.
Feeling younger than your age is associated with a 40% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease in the next eight years.
Geriatricians are trained to care for older people who have several illnesses, take a lot of medications, and have physical or cognitive impairments. There is a growing shortage of these specialists.
Strengthening your core muscles with six easy exercises can help prevent neck pain.
Dizziness can include lightheadedness and vertigo. It may be due to inner ear problems, nerve damage, low blood pressure, and medication side effects.
Kyphosis, or dowager’s hump, is caused by vertebral compression fractures. Diet, resistance exercise, and bone-building drugs help prevent it.
I am more than an inch shorter than I was a few years ago, but my weight has remained constant. I noticed that my body mass index (BMI) is just above 25. Does that mean than I am now overweight even though I haven?t put on any pounds?
Study indicates that manual pressure applied to the area between the anus and genitals can relieve constipation.