Sentences with phrase «medicines than younger people»

The population is aging, and older people typically use more prescription medicines than younger people.

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Knowing how — and especially when — to intervene for such young people is a fast - shifting frontier of medicine — one with even more ethical and cultural minefields than are faced by transgender adults.

Amyloid — an abnormal protein whose accumulation in the brain is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease — starts accumulating inside neurons of people as young as 20, a much younger age than scientists ever imagined, reports a surprising new Northwestern Medicine study.

In the first national study of a large, diverse population, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues, found that 1.2 percent of the study population engaged with devices, and that most of the individuals who started using an activity tracker were younger and had higher - incomes than people who opted not to use the devices.

Friends make good medicine: People with strong social connections have a 50 % lower chance of dying than those with few social ties, according to a 2010 study at Brigham Young University.

Still, «when I see a young person who's constipated more than normal and really complaining, I do tend to get a thyroid level,» says Carla H. Ginsburg, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

A growing number of young people are deliberately choosing a career in shelter veterinary medicine, inspired by the ability to save lives by the hundred, rather than one by one.