Falls are common for older people living semi-independently. According to the CDC, they’re the leading cause of injury for ...

Advocates are calling on congress to pass a bill to protect older adults from falling. The CDC says falls are the leading ...

Falls are the leading cause of injury or death for older adults in the U.S. One in four older adults take a bad fall each ...

The negative health impacts of alcohol have been in the spotlight since the surgeon general’s recent advisory, and now ...

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand Correspondence to: M M Gardner, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Dunedin School of ...

Older adults who experience injurious falls are more likely to develop dementia within a year of their accident compared to people of the same age who have other kinds of physical injuries, according ...

Firearm-related suicide, unintentional falls, and car crashes were the most common causes of brain injury-related deaths, ...

UPMC Hamot doctors said they have treated around 50 patients for fall injuries, while Saint Vincent has seen more than two ...

Thiruvananthapuram: An 83-year-old retired Secretariat employee was killed in a freak accident on Friday evening at Pangode.

Using data from 638,999 patients, a new study by a research team at the Warren Alpert Medical School found that the incidence ...

(HealthDay News) — There are disparities in traumatic brain injury (TBI)-related mortality, with the highest rates seen for older adults, men, and non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native persons, ...