About half of all women over 50 will get a fracture related to osteoporosis (CNN). An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) provides these quick facts: Each year in the United States, hip fractures result in approximately 300,000 hospital admissions and an estimated $9 billion in drug medical costs. Most […]
Physiological
Information on Alzheimers Disease
According to the National institute on Aging (NIA), Alzheimer’s disease is considered “a major public health problem” affecting millions of older Americans. The NIA is the lead research agency for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). When healthy people continue to age, their brain changes. Parts of it shrink, communication between neurons is reduced, blood […]