UCLA Health's Healthy Years (HY)
Volume 21 • Number 11 • November 2024
After decades behind the wheel, driving might feel like second nature, but time can bring changes that affect your driving skills. “When we age, our vision and reaction time may decline, along with visual-spatial skills,” explains Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS, Professor of Psychiatry In-Residence and Director of the late-life mood, …
Issue Highlights
Giving a speech at a wedding, interviewing for a job, or meeting a new date can make anyone a bit …
Most people, about 80 percent according to the National Institutes of Health, will experience back pain at least once in …
Outside of catching something on an airplane, most people don’t think about getting a travel-related disease when they’re vacationing around …
Learning that you have a blood clot in your deep veins may sound like an imminent medical emergency. Sometimes it …
A cataract is a clouding of the eye’s lens created by an aggregation of proteins. At present, the only way …