Patients' risk of falling in the next 12 months could be predicted from their NHS data using a newly developed calculator. eFalls is a falls prediction model which uses routinely available primary ...

Risks grow when frail patients try to get up from bed, struggle with confusion or feel disorienting side effects of multiple ...

Patients with low skeletal muscle mass are at a higher risk of falling. Certain diabetes medications, particularly SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP-1 receptor agonists, are associated with weight reduction, ...

Caution is needed in balancing the risk of falls and fractures with the need to lower blood pressure for elderly patients living in long-term care facilities, data from the Veterans Health ...

Feb. 21, 2006 (Orlando) -- Elderly people who have survived a stroke are twice as likely to fall as those with no stroke history, and they are 3 times as likely to be injured when they fall, according ...

Have you been there? A medical emergency lands you in the ER only to be discharged with a stack of papers, prescriptions to fill, and instructions for your doctor. Will those papers make it to your ...

On the morning of Saturday, February 14, the Mohammed VI University Hospital Center in Agadir announced a tragic incident: a patient died after falling from one of the hospital's floors, as confirmed ...