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A fifth of people over 65 in the UK (20%) feel their quality of life has worsened in the last year, while only 9% feel it has improved, according to a new survey. One in four older people say they h...

SEATTLE — An elderly woman died this afternoon after her car crashed into a downtown Seattle utility pole and landed upside down. police say the woman was in her 80s. The woman crashed her car...

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee publicly defended for the first time yesterday her decision to dismiss the principal of the Woodley Park bilingual school that her two children attend, asserting that a change in leadership was necessary to raise the level of its instructional programs.

Posted on: Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 00:00 CDT Knees may creak and climbing stairs may be harder, but aging brings a sense of peace and calm, U.S. researchers say. A study by the Population Research Cent...

Posted on: Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 00:00 CDT HUMANS are living longer and enjoying life more than ever and we all want to feel good and stay healthy. As we age, our body is unable to manufacture many o...

Posted on: Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 00:00 CDT By Aniza Damis; P. Selvarani MAY 1 may have been the best May Day in recent times after a 15- year struggle by civil servants for better perks bore fruit. A...

CHILDREN and parents will be shown how to stay safe on the internet during a series of training sessions.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has again defended the federal Budget, which has been criticised for being too harsh on pensioners. Today's Newspoll shows that more than 40 per cent of seniors polled belie...

Typically anticholinergic side effects are thought of as mainly a concern for elderly patients, however, in this case, my patient was in her 50's. If you think about how many patients in midlife ...

UK news section. It was last updated at 09:16 on May 20 2008. One in four older people in the UK are so worried about the future that it is making them ill, according to a report which finds that po...