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Posted on October 14, 2021 - October is American Pharmacists Month. These medical professionals have truly been health care heroes during the pandemic! Now and always, they provide a wide variety of services to help people manage their medications. For older adults, who on the average take five or more prescription medications, pharmacists help ensure those drugs help, rather than harm, health.

Posted on October 12, 2021 - Do I need another Pfizer shot? I’ve read about myocarditis—what about that? The American Heart Association offers information about the COVID-19 booster for people with heart disease and stroke survivors.

Posted on October 7, 2021 - Every October 1 since 1990, the United Nations has honored older adults worldwide on the International Day of Older Persons. The theme each year draws attention to an important need faced by older adults. Not surprisingly, last year the spotlight was on the effect of a pandemic on elders. In previous years, themes included ageism, inclusivity, older workers, elder justice, and the many gifts older adults bring to their cultures.

Posted on October 5, 2021 - Harvard experts explain how nutrition could affect our risk of COVID-19 infection and dangerous side effects.

Posted on September 30, 2021 - Do you “doomscroll”? That word was coined to describe a habit many of us have developed over the past few years, obsessively clicking on links to bad news in our social media feeds or online news sites. “The biology of our brains may play a role in that,” say researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. “Specific areas and cells in the brain become active when an individual is faced with the choice to learn or hide from information about an unwanted aversive event the individual likely has no power to prevent.”