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Alzheimer's disease may cause up to six times more deaths than previously reported, making it the third leading cause of death in the country, just behind heart disease and cancer. The disease kills as many as half a million people each year, according to a new study published in the journal… -
It seems the older I get the more difficult it is to get certain body parts back in shape. This is especially true of my arms. -
Rep. Ralph Hall (R-Texas), the oldest member of Congress, faces a primary runoff after failing to lock up his party's nomination March 4. -
The year I turned 50, I notched my fastest time ever in the Sea Gull Century - a yearly 100-mile bike ride on Maryland's Eastern Shore that I had tackled for more than a decade. Was I a lean, mean cycling machine that year? Far from it! (See team jersey, right.) Rather, I think it took me that long… -
Para los que somos golosos -parece que la mayoría del país- las últimas investigaciones nos traen noticias amargas: los estadounidenses consumimos demasiada azúcar, y nos está matando. -
At the time AARP took up their cause, Robert Bennett of Annapolis, Md., and Leila Joseph of Brooklyn, N.Y., had several things in common. They were older Americans. They were widowed. They were homeowners. And they both faced foreclosure and eviction on reverse mortgage loans. -
As expected, President Obama's budget proposal abandoned a call to change the way annual increases in Social Security benefits are calculated and continued a call for Medicare savings. -
By Susan Jaffe, Kaiser Health News. Story produced in collaboration with USA Today -
Don't blame the food, blame the type of fat we eat. That's what causes us to have big bellies, say Swedish researchers, who used a special muffin diet to demonstrate how this works. -
More lower-income people, and more older workers, would be eligible for the earned income tax credit (EITC) under President Barack Obama's proposed fiscal 2015 budget, although this expansion would come at a cost to the wealthiest Americans.