Positional means you trigger the vertigo with certain postures or movements ... You're more likely to get it if you're older. That's because parts of the inner ear start to show wear and tear.

Treatment of systolic hypertension in the elderly should be based on nonpharmacological measures and medical therapy if the systolic hypertension cannot be controlled by conservative therapy alone.

The symptoms may be due to benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, pregnancy, or motion sickness, for example. Each cause is treated a little differently, so identifying the underlying reason for your ...

age and site of treatment. Pneumococcal species are the most common causative pathogens for pneumonia in the elderly, and the development and utilization of the pneumococcal vaccine was a major ...

1 Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany 2 German Integrated Centre for Research and Treatment of Vertigo, ...

Ototoxicity is a term used to describe a drug side effect that causes damage to the inner ear or auditory nerve, resulting in hearing loss, a loss of balance, and sometimes deafness. There is an ...

A study published in Frontiers in Medicine found that acupuncture can effectively treat Meniere's disease (MD), a chronic ...

7 in Frontiers in Neurology. Ilmari Pyykko, M.D., from Tampere University in Finland, and colleagues analyzed the symptom profile of MD with a focus on the cessation of episodic vertigo, the ...

Overtreatment of prostate cancer among men with limited life expectancy is increasing in the United States Two-thirds of men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer are receiving treatment that often ...

These extra costs, for which Medicare beneficiaries are on the hook, make it harder for older Americans to access ... to skip care — mental health treatment. Less than 5% of residents in all ...

Objectives Jian Ling Decoction (JLD) is often prescribed to improve hypertension-related symptoms in China. However, this treatment has not been systematically reviewed for its efficacy against ...