Cancer prevention is action taken to lower the chance of getting cancer. This can include maintaining a healthy lifestyle, avoiding exposure to known cancer-causing substances, and taking medicines or
5 Questions You Should Ask Your Pharmacist
A visit to the pharmacy can be about more than just picking up prescriptions or supplies for the medicine cabinet. It can actually be an important, and convenient, time to ask your pharmacist key ques
Useful Tips for Managing Medication: How to Help Your Senior Manage Medication
This informational video depicts useful ways you can help your senior loved one get organized and avoid drug interactions. These tips include pill organizers, a master medication and supplement list,
9 Steps to Reverse Dementia and Memory Loss as You Age
RECENTLY, I SPOKE on a panel for PBS TV at the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) convention in Boston. The topic was dementia.
There was a woman with mild cognitive impairment on the pane
The Difference Between Hospice and Palliative Care
About Hospice
Hospice is specialized medical care for individuals who have less than six months to live. Pain management and symptom relief are primary hospice care goals. Hospice care seeks to enable
Helpful or Hurtful: Should You Keep Taking Fish Oil Supplements?
Every day, millions of Americans take supplements to get the vitamins and nutrients their bodies need to stay healthy. Like many others, you might take a daily fish oil supplement to get the benefits