As with many of life’s problems, preventing them is a good idea.

Preventive medicine has come a very long way. The average U.S. life expectancy went from age 47 in 1900 to age 77 by the year 2000 — a difference of 30 years!

With those improvements come some extra work for you to do with your doctors. Screening tests, vaccines and losing bad habits have helped fuel longer life expectancy and improved quality of life.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has studied which interventions are most likely to help you live longer and better. Each intervention is given a grade of A, B, C or D. Grade A recommendations are the best; everyone within this recommendation stands to gain by getting it done. Blood pressure checks and vaccines, along with certain blood tests and cancer screenings, fo

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