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Vincent A. Russo responded to readers' questions about long-term care insurance.

Commonly viewed as an inevitable consequence of aging and often ignored in clinical practice, falls among the elderly were cut by 11 percent when researchers at Yale School of medicine used a combination of fall prevention educational campaigns and interventions aimed at encouraging clinicians to incorporate fall-risk assessment and management into their practices.

Patients suffering from major depression are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, but treating these patients with medication can greatly reduce the risk, according to new findings by researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of medicine. The results of their study are published in the July 16 issue of the journal PLoS ONE.

While various methods for taking a patient's temperature exist, the devices do not all produce identical or even similar values. Substituting one method for another could lead to erroneous decisions for treating temperature spikes and drops. A study in the June 2008 issue of MEDSURG Nursing compares noninvasive temperature measurement devices with an oral electronic thermometer.

Why, wonders Tarquin Cooper, would anyone race up and down mountains in foul weather? 'It's a Zen thing,' he is told. 'You thrive on that pain. In the end, you start to love it'

Evelyn Evans learns to blend her own essential oils.

KATE Chetwynd seemed to have everything to live for, with a newborn child and a loving family around her.

LOUD music in bars and pubs makes people drink more heavily and quickly, a study revealed yesterday.

A GP who gave sleeping pills to a patient so she could kill herself, branded the law an "ass" yesterday.

Someplace else, people might tell you that human life is priceless. In Washington, the federal government has appraised it like a '96 Camaro with bad brakes.