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Nutrition and healthy aging: The role of protein quality in combatting muscle loss

To ensure older adults can continue to do the things they love well into their later years, it’s important to increase the amount and...

Staying Stronger Longer: Addressing sarcopenia with exercise

Studies suggest women are prone to more muscle mass loss than men. Jamie Grill via Getty Images (NewsUSA) - Muscle health is just as important as...

Loss of muscle mass among elderly can lead to falls, and staying put during the pandemic doesn’t help

Studies suggest women are prone to more muscle mass loss than men. Jamie Grill via Getty Images by Roger Fielding, Tufts University This article was originally...

Addressing sarcopenia with a healthy diet

Weight training, along with low-impact aerobic activities and a good diet, can help stave off sarcopenia. Barry Austin via Getty Images (NewsUSA) - Age-related loss of...

Extreme heat is particularly hard on older adults, and an aging population and climate change are putting ever more people at risk

During the July 2023 heat wave, people gathered at the Justa Center, a day cooling center in downtown Phoenix for people age 55 and...

Get Proactive This Winter to Reduce ‘Tripledemic’ Impact on Children, Adults  

Photo: Getty Images   While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that there is low flu activity in Michigan (as of early December), the...

Omicron makes booster shots more critical for medically vulnerable seniors

by Laurie Archbald-Pannone, University of Virginia People are understandably worn out, tired of thinking about COVID-19 and wanting to get back to a true normal. This...

Comcast speeding up its discounted Internet service

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Comcast is speeding up and expanding a discounted Internet service that was created to get more low-income people online. Comcast created the...

Aetna to buy Humana as health insurer landscape shifts

Aetna aims to spend about $35 billion to buy rival Humana and become the latest health insurer bulking up on government business as the...

The power of the PA Millennial boom

This year, the Millennial generation will eclipse the Baby Boomers as the nation’s largest living generation, totaling 75.3 million, according to U.S. Census data. For...

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