Health: Trip and fall lately? Tell your doctor (AP)

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Trip and fall lately? Tell your doctor
    (AP)

 

AP - Trip and fall lately? Seniors often won't mention it unless they're hurt, but new guidelines say that first tumble is a good predictor of who's at risk for another, more serious fall. With deaths from falls increasing, the guidelines urge doctors to ask patients to 'fess up.


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