Aging:
News Articles on Aging, Back Pain, Age Related Disease, Eldercare, Healthy Aging
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Sep 23rd, 2009
A person, usually a child, dies of rabies every 20 minutes. However, only one inoculation may be all it takes for rabies vaccination.
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Sep 21st, 2009
Eleven children and two adults came down with E. coli days after visiting the petting zoo at the Pacific National Exhibition this summer.
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Sep 21st, 2009
The New Mexico Department of Health announced today that a 61-year-old woman from Taos County is hospitalized at University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque with Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome.
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Sep 21st, 2009
While September 22 marks the end of summer – "Mosquito season" lasts into November.
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Sep 21st, 2009
The Connecticut Department of Public Health has re-issued a statewide Sickle Cell Disease education campaign that includes three award-winning television and radio spots.
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Sep 21st, 2009
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health raised the mosquito alert level from moderate to high in the cities and towns of New Bedford, Acushnet and Freetown.
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Sep 21st, 2009
Ankle distraction arthroplasty is an exciting, innovative procedure for treating ankle arthritis in select patients. Unlike ankle fusion and ankle replacement, distraction arthroplasty focuses on joint restoration.
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Sep 21st, 2009
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is the first hospital in Philadelphia offering endoluminal fundoplication (ELF) – an incisionless surgical treatment option to provide long-term elimination of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
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Sep 21st, 2009
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is the first hospital in Philadelphia to offer the FDA-cleared Neuromonics Tinnitus Treatment.
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Sep 21st, 2009
The University of Michigan has developed an organ matching software program that offers new hope to patients needing a kidney transplant.
