HealthDay - FRIDAY, July 3 (HealthDay News) -- Extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis
might someday meet its match in two drugs now used to treat Parkinson's
disease, suggests a new study.
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Reuters - An intervention including drug and behavior therapy may help curb frequent nighttime urination or "nocturia" in elderly men, researchers have found.
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HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Middle-aged adults who live
alone are twice as likely to develop dementia or Alzheimer's disease later
in life compared to those who are married or live with a partner. And the
risk is three times higher among those who are divorced or widowed,
according to a new study by Swedish and Finnish researchers.
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Reuters - Drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease show promise as a new way to stem the rise of drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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 AFP - US health care giant Johnson & Johnson is to take up an 18.4 percent stake in Irish drugmaker Elan and acquire rights to Elan's Alzheimer's disease trial drugs, the companies said Thursday.
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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly men who exercised
and received the growth hormone known as "mechano growth factor" (MGF)
showed increased muscle mass, according to a British study.
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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Older people who signed up
for Medicare's prescription drug coverage, called Part D, spent more on
drugs after enrolling than they had before but less on other types of
medical care, researchers have found.
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 AP - Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers. It's time for the nation's annual obesity rankings and, outside of fairly lean Colorado, there's little good news. In 31 states, more than one in four adults are obese, says a new report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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AP - The percentage of Americans with private health insurance has hit its lowest mark in 50 years, according to two new government reports. About 65 percent of non-elderly Americans had private insurance in 2008, down from 67 percent the year before, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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AP - You don't have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a big Medicare study concludes.
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Reuters - Since 2006, U.S. taxpayers have paid nearly $155,000 to send home health nurses to inject twice-daily insulin shots for an elderly, diabetic Miami man.
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HealthDay - TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment with a
cholesterol-lowering drug might protect against Alzheimer's disease, new
research suggests.
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HealthDay - TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Fluctuating hormone levels
may explain trends in the timing of women's susceptibility to neurological
diseases such as Parkinson's, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, Tourette's and
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, new research suggests.
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Reuters - An Institute of Medicine committee urged the U.S. government on Tuesday to fund studies comparing treatments for Alzheimer's disease, attention deficit disorder and other conditions as part of a new effort to determine which strategies work best.
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 AFP - Saudi Arabia warned elderly Muslims and pregnant women on Tuesday against undertaking the hajj pilgrimage this year as the threat threat of swine flu mounts worldwide.
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HealthDay - MONDAY, June 29 (HealthDay News) -- Each year, more than 47,000
elderly Americans are treated at hospital emergency departments for
injuries from falls that involve walkers and canes, according to a federal
government study released Monday.
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Time.com - Growing evidence suggests that social activity is associated with preserving mental and physical fitness in older age
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 Reuters - A nationwide health insurance exchange that includes a Medicare-like government option could save $1.8 trillion more than if only private plans are offered, a prominent private U.S. health policy group said on Wednesday.
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 AP - Each day, skeleton crews of doctors, nurses and pharmacists field almost 900 calls a day around California from people such as a mother whose child swallowed flea repellant and an elderly man who accidentally doubled up on his medication.
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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) -- To stave off the mental
decline associated with old age, engage in intellectually challenging
activities, maintain a positive outlook and keep up your social life.
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