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Connection Between Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline?
Hearing loss affects 30 percent of Americans in their 60s, and that percentage more than doubles for those 70 and older. While it’s one of the most common conditions affecting older adults, some studies indicate that hearing loss can signal an even more serious deterioration—that of cognitive ability.
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How Occupational Therapy Can Help Counter Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an unpredictable, potentially debilitating disease that affects the central nervous system. More than 2.3 million people are affected worldwide, with symptoms that range from fatigue to difficulty seeing, to challenges with mobility. Symptoms can start or worsen without warning, taking a mental toll as well.
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Understanding Multiple Sclerosis
If you talk with people who have multiple sclerosis (MS), you will likely find a common theme —their symptoms aren’t the same. For many people, it’s only after several puzzling and sometimes distressing symptoms appear that they are diagnosed with this serious but nonfatal disease. MS affects more than 400,000 people in the United States and 2.5 million people around the world.
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Shingles Vaccine May Reduce Risk of Dementia, Too
If you’re 50 or older and haven’t gotten your shingles vaccine yet, here is an excellent incentive: it could reduce or delay your risk of developing dementia, a new study shows.
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Understanding Peripheral Neuropathy
Your nervous system is a complex assembly of nerves running throughout your body, carrying messages to and from your brain. Unfortunately, there are many things that can go wrong and disrupt your body’s communication system.
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Is It Time to Consider Surgery for Your Pinched Spinal Nerve?
If you have been diagnosed with a pinched spinal nerve, your doctor is in no rush to suggest a surgical solution.
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Pain, Tingling, Numbness: Could It Be Peripheral Neuropathy?
The magnificent human nervous system carries electrical signals from the brain to every corner of the body and back, so if something goes wrong, it could happen anywhere on that neural highway. The symptoms of the malfunction vary greatly depending on the locale, and so does the treatment.
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Signs You Might Have Sleep Apnea
It’s hard to function when you aren’t getting good sleep. As many as one in three Americans struggles with sleeping because of a sleep disorder – and many don’t know they have it.
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“Kissing Bugs” Carrying Potentially Fatal Disease Reported in Florida
The Centers for Disease and Prevention is warning residents in the southern United States that deadly “kissing bugs” have invaded the region.
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What You Should Know About CTE and Soccer
The risk to American football players of long-term neurological consequences from repeated brain trauma is well-known.
