Excessive dizziness, nausea and an unsteady gait are just some of the symptoms of a vertigo attack. With possibly no apparent ...

Gabapentinoids -- pregabalin and gabapentin -- were tied to increased hip fracture risk in older adults. Gabapentinoids -- ...

A new study by Monash University medicine safety experts found the use of gabapentinoids—medicines widely used to treat ...

The study, published today in JAMA Network Open, tracked patients hospitalized for hip fractures in Victoria, Australia from ...

age and site of treatment. Pneumococcal species are the most common causative pathogens for pneumonia in the elderly, and the development and utilization of the pneumococcal vaccine was a major ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating an E. coli outbreak in at least 18 states linked to some ...

Western medicine’s primary treatments include ... and the elderly should generally avoid bloodletting. It is also crucial to prevent infection through stringent sterilization and to use disposable ...

Treatment of systolic hypertension in the elderly should be based on nonpharmacological measures and medical therapy if the systolic hypertension cannot be controlled by conservative therapy alone.

Heat stroke is primarily classified into exertional and non-exertional forms. Exertional heat stroke results from strenuous ...

Researchers are trying to get to the root of the problem, in hopes of helping these patients who are suffering the longest.

A new study by medicine safety experts found the use of gabapentinoids -- medicines widely used to treat neuropathic pain -- increased the risk of hip fractures, especially in older patients who were ...

Surgical oncologist Hanh-Tam Tran explains the importance of lymph node surgery and how axillary sampling is evolving in the breast cancer setting for patients aged 70 years and over.