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When it comes to living a long and healthy life, finding and treating health conditions at an early stage is key. Alongside a healthy lifestyle and regular checkups, screening tests offer people the best chance to thrive at any age.
Here are the screening tests for older adults that are recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and other leading healthcare organizations.
Health insurance is an essential part of one’s investments that can take care of any medical treatment. For those who do not know about health insurance, you purchase a policy from an insurance company for a yearly premium. In return, the insurance company will cover all your health-related costs.
During the winter, people often come down with a stuffy nose and sore throat. Viruses cause hundreds of millions of upper respiratory tract infections — also known as “colds” — every year. These viruses are most active during the months that make up the cold and flu season.
With this year’s tripledemic, a cold could mean that you get COVID-19, the flu, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). These viruses can make you sicker than a regular cold virus. So what’s the difference between COVID, the flu, and RSV? And how can you tell which you’ve got?
Let’s take a look at how your symptoms can give you an important clue.
First, her favorite doctor in Providence, R.I. retired. Then her other doctor, at a health center a few miles away, left the practice. Now, Piedad Fred has developed a new chronic condition: distrust in the American medical system.
“I don’t know,” she said, eyes filling up. “To go to a doctor that doesn’t know who you are? That doesn’t know what allergies you have, the medicines that make you feel bad? It’s difficult…I know that I feel cheated, sad, and like I have my hands tied.”
In 2016, Richard Timmins went to a free informational seminar to learn more about Medicare coverage.
“I listened to the insurance agent, and basically, he really promoted Medicare Advantage,” Timmins says. The agent described less expensive and broader coverage offered by the plans, which are funded largely by the government but administered by private insurance companies.
