“No other country in the world is experiencing population aging on the same scale as China. The United Nations projects that there will be 366 million older Chinese adults by 2050, which is substantially larger than the current total U.S. population (331...
SEATTLE – Seeing a physician or other health specialist for low back and neck pain? You’re not alone, according to a new scientific study. Americans in 2016 spent an estimated $380 billion on low back and neck pain, as well as on joint and limb pain, and...
Nursing homes locally and across the U.S. have been in lockdown for weeks under federal orders to protect their elderly residents from COVID-19. But the deadly outbreaks nearly every day suggests that the measures, including a ban on visits and daily health screenings...
A new study found that for women, maintaining a healthy weight and making better food choices can significantly reduce their chances of suffering from a stroke later on in life, even if the aforementioned lifestyle changes are made when they already reach middle age....
David E. Bloom, professor of economics and demography and David Canning, professor of population sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health discuss a scientifically sound, far less costly approach at our disposal: conducting COVID-19 tests on a...
