Old age can bring with it a host of mental and physical issues, including heart conditions and cognitive problems such as dementia and memory troubles.

You may have heard about taking one baby aspirin a day to help prevent heart disease. This little, multi-purpose pill is also showing power in reducing cancer deaths.

The older you get, the greater your risk is for atrial fibrillation. With these irregular heartbeats, the body and brain may not get enough blood, and this may affect your ability to think.

The dementia associated with Alzheimer’s disease cannot be cured, but medication is available to improve the ability to think and remember.

DNA varies from person to person and, in some ways, group to group. Those variations may explain why many blacks require much less of a widely prescribed blood thinner than do whites.

When it comes to having a healthy heart and preventing build up of calcium deposits in the arteries, diet, exercise, maintaining normal weight and not smoking can make a big difference.

Statins are medications that can lower cholesterol and reduce the risk for heart disease. While these medications can be highly beneficial for many people, they can also lead to some nasty side effects.

For heart attack patients, getting post-traumatic stress disorder is fairly common. Those with PTSD are also likely to have another cardiac event, and sleep troubles may play a role.

As the obesity rate among young people has climbed, so has the rate of type 2 diabetes. Adolescents who get the disease may face more health problems than those who get it as an adult.

Blood thinners are a mixed blessing for patients. On one hand, they can prevent strokes. But on the other, they can cause serious bleeding during surgery.