"...consideration of advanced age, frailty and polypharmacy alone should not deter clinicians from recommending intensive ...

Investigators at Mass General Brigham have developed a tool that can identify older adults at increased risk of emergency ...

Investigators at Mass General Brigham have developed a tool that can identify older adults at increased risk of emergency ...

The reduced risk of heart disease and early death outweighed the negatives that can accompany such aggressive treatment, ...

Older adults who were 75 and older, frail or taking multiple medications (polypharmacy) had greater net benefits from efforts to lower systolic blood pressure compared to those aged 65 to 74. However, ...

More self-reported cognitive failure events in older adults were associated with worse relative emotional functioning and worse quality of life.

Researchers at Boston-based Mass General Brigham developed an Epic tool that identifies older patients at risk for emergency care, readmission or death based on frailty levels. The electronic frailty ...

Hot dog-loving Costco shoppers have found themselves on edge once again. The food court frenzy began when an Instagram post ...

Reduced baroreflex sensitivity is tied to an increased risk for dementia in older adults who do not take antihypertensive medications.

Doctors’ leaders have condemned a “catastrophic” error in the marking of a high stakes medical exam that left almost 300 candidates with an incorrect result. The error affected nearly a fifth (283 of ...

Early this morning, Senate Republicans passed their $340 billion budget framework along a mostly party-line vote, 52-48.

The Alzheimer's Association revised the diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer disease (AD) and ADRD for clinicians in primary and specialty care.