A 70-year-old man presents with lower back pain, bilateral buttock pain, and a sensation of bilateral leg weakness, most notably in the right ankle and foot.
A 77-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with shortness of breath. She had a medical history significant for COPD, CAD, myocardial infarction status after coronary artery bypass grafting,...
An 81-year-old nursing home resident was brought to the emergency department of the local hospital due to shortness of breath. He had a long list of serious conditions, including a recent intracranial...
A 62-year-old man presented to the clinic with an enlarging lesion on his left shin. The lesion had progressively grown in size and, in the last few weeks, has been associated with a yellowish discharge,...
Paula is a 51-year-old woman whose diet includes 2 to 3 sugar sweetened beverages per day. She knows sweetened beverages aren’t good for her and asks you what kind of impact this could have on her health.
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In this Q and A, Rebecca Sherman, AuD, answers our questions on the importance of monitoring hearing as a patient gets older, how hearing loss affects the brain, and the link between untreated hearing loss...