Knowing Why Grandpa Died May Save You
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After you and your family have finished your second helping of mashed potatoes and gravy this Thanksgiving, you might want to take Grandpa aside and ask him about his cholesterol.
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In the music business, it's a vision that may soon be consigned to history: Grandpa slumping into the recliner, closing his eyes and enjoying a favorite rendition of an operatic solo. For music lovers these days, the sedentary lifestyle is out.
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Scientists have identified a link between the brain and heart that can make a person die from too much excitement. About 20% of sudden deaths due to heart malfunction are thought to arise from emotional stress.
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Living to 100 is easier than you might think. Surprising new research suggests that even people who develop heart disease or diabetes late in life have a decent shot at reaching the century mark.
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Why you might want to cruise through your retirement -- literally.
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Your parents are getting older. Here's how you can help them.
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The trouble with time travelers is that so many go back in time to issue death threats to grandparents of future malefactors. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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Millions of boomers are caring for parents afflicted with a disease that steals minds and memories. What life is like when your mother doesn't know you, or her own name.
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An eyewitness account indicates that a death may have been especially tragic.
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(HealthDay News) -- Baby Boomers with elderly parents often live with the fear that their elders will start a fire while cooking, forget to take their medications, or fail to remember an important phone number -- all signs of the memory loss that comes with aging.
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NEW YORK, Jan 30 (Reuters Life!) - Older people are able to take bad news more in their stride than their children or grandchildren which can make them more risky gamblers as losses don't scare them, according to a U.S. study.
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A new finding may explain how stress could ultimately lead to premature aging.
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About two years before the heart attack that killed him, I told Dad that if he didn't clean up his act, he'd be dead in five years. Quit the smoking, get some exercise, stop nailing himself to the cross of his job. We were sitting at the kitchen table, he and Mom and I. Dad had already had one heart...
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Does your brother or sister have heart disease? That may be a better predictor of whether you are at risk that your parents&#39; health history, researchers said on Monday.
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One call could save you big. It never hurts to ask!
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A study of a closely knit family with several members suffering from a rare illness is providing what researchers say may be important clues to the cause
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It would have been easy to dedicate this one to &quot;Maw&quot; - the 78-year-old grandmother Ryan Franklin lost last week. He could have said it was for his son, splayed across his father&#39;s lap after the game.