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Anticholinergic medications affect physical functioning in older adults

A class of medications previously linked to cognitive impairment in older adults also appears to negatively affect their physical functioning. Science Newsline reports that...

Extreme loneliness worse than obesity as health risk

Extreme loneliness on a long-term basis can be worse than obesity in terms of increasing the potentially lethal health risks that lead to premature...