Philadelphia: Blurred vision contributes to the risk of falling in older adults-but getting new glasses with a big change in vision prescription may increase the risk rather than decreasing it, according to a special article, '2013 Fry Lecture: Blurred Vision, Spectacle Corr & Falls in Older Adults' in the June issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry.

Washington: In an analysis that included data from nine studies, having higher measures of walking speed among older adults was associated with increased length of survival, according to a recent study issue of JAMA.

Washington: The results of a new survey that find as much as 33% of Americans lose sleep during the summer months due to hectic summer schedules, vacations, allergies, and warmer weather.

Washington:  Waiting until marriage to have babies is now 'unusual' among less-educated adults close to 30 years old, Johns Hopkins University researchers found.

Washington:  A new Tulane University School of Medicine study finds that the more fractured families are by domestic violence or trauma, the more likely that children will bear the scars down to their DNA.

Atlanta: Men who have been incarcerated and released are more than twice as likely to die prematurely as those who have not been imprisoned, according to a new study published by Georgia State University criminologist William Alex Pridemore.