Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 19—A simple accident like tripping on a rug or slipping on a wet floor can change your life. If you fall, you could break a ...

A new shoe could help elderly people stay on their feet - and protect them against potentially fatal falls and stumbles. Previous figures released by the National Institute for Health and Care ...

Masked high blood pressure in adults older than 78 is associated with a 70% higher risk of falls compared with high blood ...

Death rates from falls among older adults have surged in the last 20 years, as the American population ages and more seniors prefer to live independently in their homes. New data from the Centers for ...

The CDC reports that 1 in 4 Americans older than 65 falls each year, and falls are the leading cause of injury-related death among that age group. With the fall death rate hitting 64 people for every ...

Masked hypertension (higher home than office blood pressure [BP]) is associated with a higher risk for falls in older adults, ...

The scenario is common. An elderly person seems to be in good health until one day they suffer a fall, and from then on their quality of life begins to deteriorate. Even if there are no serious ...

NEW YORK — Older U.S. adults are increasingly dying from unintentional falls, according to a new federal report published Wednesday, with white people accounting for the vast majority of the deaths.

Women on CagriSema lost 25% of their body weight in a post hoc trial analysis, while 79.6% of users had digestive side effects. The drug is not approved. In 1948, researchers stressed a nursing mother ...

Multifactorial interventions not tailored to individual needs (ie, defined as two or more strategies based on general risk profiles) probably have little or no effect on fall rate and may only ...

Long-term care clinicians are well aware of the risks posed by falls in older patients. A new study underscores how the fear of falling itself affects the elderly, and how managing clinical risk ...

Falls are a serious problem among older adults. Approximately one in every four people over age 65 fall each year, and 20 percent of those lead to a serious injury such as a broken bone or head injury ...