senior health

image: the Aedes albopictus mosquito, also known as the Asian tiger mosquito Once upon a time — a couple of months ago — there were no cases of the Zika…

Words like “aging” or “graying” don’t even begin to do justice to the dynamic changes that baby boomers have brought to the U.S. population. The figures in a recent U.S.…

No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early. – Groucho Marx In a recent article in The New Republic, writer Bryce Covert claims that Americans are…

“Federal and state laws should be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.” – Richard Nixon Bill Clinton might go down in history…

A lot of us spend a lot of time abusing a special friend. It’s time we pay him proper homage. We are talking, of course, about your liver. First, some…

A ship is safe in harbor. But that’s not what ships are for. – William Shedd It’s an old question, what to do when you retire. How should you handle your…

It started with GPS in mobile phones. Applications were developed that could track how far you ran or rode your bike, keep track of your route, and estimate the calories…

According to Social Security, seniors are retiring with a load of debt. But despite having ongoing money problems, many retirees are reporting unexpected positive aspects of retirement in a recent…

Every so often science takes an interesting turn, and seeks to quantify and understand why things go right — instead of the more common focus on failure analysis. Perhaps it’s…

There is a part of your body that was given its name by a guy known as Rufus. We’ll leave aside the jokes for now. But it is true that…

Probably because the very idea of suicide is repellent to us, we tend to think of it as being rare. In fact, suicide is more common than we’d like to…

Isn’t it odd that we ourselves want to live to be old, yet we don’t want to associate too much with other people who are already old? As for revering…