Month: October 2019

Sylvia Soicher has lived an active life. The Kendall resident went to Pilates four times a week, painted live models every week at an art studio and was semi-retired from … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

Figuring out the best Medicare plan to meet your needs is like putting together pieces of a puzzle. This year, an improved tool on the Medicare website aims to help. … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

Part A, Part B, Part D, Medicare Advantage, Medigap — so many choices. It can be bewildering for seniors signing up for Medicare for the first time as well as … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

There are many factors that influence how long somebody lives. Some, like their genes, are out of their control. Others, like their lifestyle and environment, are a bit easier to alter. A new paper published in Nature finds another factor that falls somewhere in between those extremes. It suggests that excessive neural activity in the … Read more

Between 1997 and 2016, spending on direct-to-consumer healthcare advertising skyrocketed, from $2.1 billion to $9.6 billion. Where advertising once represented 12% of total medical marketing expenditures, it came to represent 32%. There was a time when reputable doctors wouldn’t dream of such flagrant self-promotion. As medicine became more professionalized throughout the nineteenth century, doctors began … Read more