NIH MedlinePlus Magazine is a new quarterly guide for patients and their families. It brings the latest and most authoritative medical and healthcare information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as featured online on the MedlinePlus Web site.

Feature: Senior Living

• Caregiving and Decision-Making For Seniors: How You Can Help
• For Dr. Nancy Snyderman's Parents, Staying Close to Family Is Key
• There's No Place Like Home
• Assisted Living
• Long Distance Caregiving
• Staying Positive and Moving Forward
• Former WWII Fighter Pilot Finds New Home Near Family
• Near-Centenarian Makes Friends Quickly in New Home

HIV / AIDS

• HIV, AIDS, and the Future
• The Nation's Top HIV/AIDS Researcher Discusses This Continuing Health Threat
• HIV / AIDS: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment
• An Unequal Burden

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Heart-Safe Exercise
In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers have found that exercise is safe for people with heart failure, improves quality of life — and may even reduce the risk of death or hospitalization. This is good news for the 5 million Americans whose hearts cannot pump enough blood through the body due to coronary heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, or other causes. Funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the study included walking and riding a stationary bicycle for exercise. People with heart failure should talk with their doctors prior to sustained physical activity.

Obesity, Allergy Connection?
Obese children and teens are more likely than children of normal weight to suffer from allergies, particularly food allergies. Analyzing data on more than 4,000 children between the ages of 2 and 19, researchers found the obese to be about 26 percent more likely to have allergies. The results do not prove that obesity causes allergies — more investigation is needed. The study was funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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