Alright – you’ve been routinely taking your meds and going to physical therapy, but your hip pain is more excruciating than ever. Miserable and exhausted, you may start to wonder: could surgery be the solution? There are lots of factors to consider when deciding whether or not to pursue hip…

You probably didn’t need a new study to confirm this fact: the costs of the most popular medications keep rising and there seems no end in sight to the uptick. Published in JAMA, this new study looked at drug pricing for 49 common, top-selling brand-name drugs, and the findings were…

Sometimes you have time to plan and strategize in advance- and sometimes you don’t. When a loved one dies, there are innumerable consequences- some logistical, some legal, some financial, some emotional- that inevitably follow. And while everyone has a different path to chart when a loved one passes away, there…

As in almost all aspects of our lives, artificial intelligence (AI) is seeping into the health care arena, including long term care for older people, either at home or in facilities. In hospitals, you’re beginning to see robots deliver pills or lunch trays and transport specimens to labs. And of…

While you may greet the arrival of summer with outstretched arms and happy smiles, some of us enter a stage of somber reflection as we try to figure out what we can and should wear: Should those outstretched upper arms always be covered? Is it okay to let those knee…

While it’s easy to come up with excuses not to exercise, those reasons generally don’t hold up when it comes to walking. It’s cheap, it’s easy and it’s something you’ve been doing since your toddler days. So unless you have a disability that prevents you from walking, there’s little reason…