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Dear Savvy Senior: Are there any organizations you know of that offer low-cost hearing aids to seniors on a very tight budget? -- Hard of Hearing  |  |


Leah isn't your typical assistance dog.  |  |
Inspired by research that showed users' difficulty operating hearing aid controls, industrial design firm Stuart Karten Design (SKD) and Starkey Laboratories, Inc. have developed the first hearing aid to bring touch technology, which has revolutionized the consumer electronics industry, to  |  |
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.  |  |


If conditions in India were difficult, conditions in Guyana seemed almost impossible. From early morn to late at night, Jung Bahadur Singh worked in the fields. He raised his family as best he could , Spirituality  |  |
Men who regularly take part in moderate-to-heavy intensity exercise such as jogging, tennis or swimming may be less likely to have a stroke than people who get no exercise or only light exercise, such as walking, golfing, or bowling, according  |  |
Carole Riggs, a retired teacher and school principal, points to her work during one Christmas vacation - bending, twisting and sitting on the floor to create games and teaching aids - as the primary culprit behind many years of back  |  |
How well do you know your health heritage — the risks that have been handed down to you? If your physician asked for your family's health history, could you provide it?Chances are good that you could not, because there is  |  |
Santa Claus should avoid kissing children and shaking their hands to prevent spreading the flu and should get vaccinated against the illness, Hungary's state health authority said.In a recommendation issued over the weekend and posted on its official website http://www.antsz.hu,  |  |
Think you know how much TV your kid is watching? If you're not taking the time they spend in child care into account, you may be way off, according to a study from the University of Washington in Seattle.That's because  |  |
Exposure shortly after birth to ambient metals from residential heating oil combustion and particles from diesel emissions are associated with respiratory symptoms in young inner city children, according to a new study by researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's  |  |
Geisinger Medical Center (GMC) has been named to the 2009 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals® Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success list, which annually identifies high-performing cardiovascular hospitals nationally and sets performance targets for managing and improving cardiovascular services.The 2009 Thomson Reuters  |  |
A Loyola University Health System study has found that one out of five Type 2 diabetics is morbidly obese—approximately 100 pounds or more overweight.Researchers reported that 62.4 percent of U.S. adults with Type 2 diabetes are obese, and 20.7 percent  |  |
From professional athletes to weekend warriors, the condition known as "runner's knee" is a painful and potentially debilitating injury suffered by millions of people - although until now, it has been unclear just what causes it.But new research from the  |  |
Oregon State University) A string of recent discoveries about the multiple health benefits of vitamin D has renewed interest in this multi-purpose nutrient, increased awareness of the huge numbers of people who are deficient in it, spurred research and even  |  |
University of Alabama at Birmingham) For colon and other cancers, African-Americans have lower survival rates than whites. There has been a belief that racial disparity in survival following surgery for colon cancer was related to a high BMI and co-morbidity.  |  |
University of Rochester Medical Center) In a study of cancer patients and survivors, three-quarters report having insomnia or sleep problems following chemotherapy  |  |
Journal of the National Cancer Institute) Biomethylation of arsenic compounds appears to cause oxidative DNA damage and to increase their carcinogenicity, according to a new study published online Nov. 23 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.  |  |
New Mayo Clinic research studied the association between prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels and prostate size and found that routine annual evaluation of prostate growth is not necessarily a predictor for the development of prostate cancer.  |  |
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