We have created this guide on how to choose your 2027 medicare plan including important dates, commons mistakes, and a checklist of things to do. There are also special insights on what you need to keep in mind, programs that could be helpful, and changes from the previous year. Read the full article for everything you need to know!
Intrinsic Capacity is a new term experts are hoping to use to determine a person’s overall health in an effort to implement interventions for a longer, healthier, and happier life. Intrinsic Capacity is measured in five different key areas including cognition, locomotion, sensory capacity, psychological well-being, and vitality. Several studies are being implemented across the US to learn more on how to improve the accuracy of this metric and use it, eventually, for all ages.
A YouTube discussion from Taking Care of Your Diabetes (TCOYD) on why 4 in 10 people who are diagnosed with Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA) are told they have Type 2 Diabetes first and the impact of this misdiagnosis on their health and progress.
I conducted the interview below with my own endocrinologist Dr. David Lam. Our first visit lasted 90 minutes. We talked about diabetes only the last half hour. Lam is smart, tech savvy and responsive. As you might have guessed he is also compassionate, prizes partnership, and sees me as a person, not merely a condition. My husband was impressed when Dr. Lam stayed in text-touch with me, switching me from Lantus to Tresiba, over a weekend. I wanted to understand how he sees our challenges aging with type 1 diabetes and the ones he faces every day working within our industrialized health care system. He didn’t hesitate when I asked for this interview, so here’s an endocrinologist’s view from the other side of the examination table.
Forget holding hands—new research reveals a surprising twist in how two people can become a dynamic duo against sudden loss of balance. A recent study, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, demonstrates that when two individuals walk side by side, a rigid link between them dramatically accelerates balance recovery after unexpected slips.