Too Few Aging Adults Getting Vaccines, Study Says
The underuse of vaccines by older adults leads to millions of cases of pneumonia, influenza and other diseases each year, some causing severe illness and death, according to a report issued July 29....
View ArticleOne of the Most Important Things to Do For Your Grandkids
Grandparents and grandfriends go to great lengths to protect the children in their lives. Among other things they provide safe environments, share stories that connect children to their roots and, in...
View ArticleNew Shingles Vaccine Urged for Adults 50+
(Editor’s note: This newly updated story was originally published in 2017.) If you are in your fifties, there’s a new shingles vaccine recommendation for you. In January 2018, the U.S. Centers for...
View ArticleIs It Really Too Late to Get a Flu Shot?
(Editor’s Note: This story was previously published on the PBS Newshour site.) Remember how terrible the 2009 swine flu season was? This flu season is now as bad as that one, and public health...
View ArticleWhy the Flu Is Often Missed in Older Adults
(A longer version of this article appeared previously on BetterHealthWhileAging.net.) You’ve likely heard the news: the flu is pretty bad this year, with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)...
View ArticleWhy Pneumococcal Pneumonia Can Be Serious for Adults 65+
(This post is sponsored and developed, in part, by Pfizer; however, the opinions are my own.) You’ve been battling that cough for a while now, and lately a fever and the shaking chills. You think it...
View ArticleCDC: Flu Shot Still Best Protection, Despite This Season’s Low Effectiveness
(Editor’s note: The Centers for Disease Control — CDC — reported Thursday its estimate of the overall effectiveness of this season’s influenza vaccination is 47 percent. For people age 50 and older,...
View ArticleHow to Prepare for a Healthy Trip Abroad
The recent stories about healthy tourists developing dangerous illnesses overseas may be enough to make you want to stay at home and sip mai tais in the safety of your living room. There were the...
View ArticleHow Important Is That High-Dose Flu Shot?
In case you missed it, the beginning of this winter’s flu season was heralded by a new TV commercial about a specific type of flu vaccine called Fluzone High-Dose. In the ad, an older woman runs into a...
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