Only one in three older adults is getting all recommended health screening measures. [1] Older adults can live stronger, longer by making sure they get all health screenings on the schedule ...

Medical tests aren’t just for diagnosing disorders once symptoms appear—they’re also routinely used as an important aspect of preventive health care ... For most adults, depending on age, doctors will ...

Screening to Appropriately Guide Older Individuals toward Safe Exercise Programs Given the lack of clinical evidence to support the utility of traditional cardiac stress testing prior to starting ...

They suggest that Lp(a) should be measured more routinely than happens at present, because as many as six million adults may have ... that is not currently recommended. More research needs to ...

The American Cancer Society 2018 guideline for colorectal cancer screening recommends that average-risk adults aged 45 years and older undergo regular screening with either a high-sensitivity ...

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Sai writes about healthcare ... for individuals to begin undergoing colon cancer screening at the age of 45, rather than the previously recommended age of 50. The rapid rise in rates of this ...