HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- After Medicare sweetened
payments for simple office-based endoscopic procedures, doctors in one New
York City practice performed many more in-office bladder biopsies, but the
volume of hospital procedures stayed roughly the same, a new study
finds.
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HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- The industrial cleaner
trichloroethylene (TCE) has been linked to an increased risk of
Parkinson's disease, U.S. researchers say.
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HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Decreased handgrip strength in the
elderly is associated with increased risk of death, researchers say.
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HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- High blood pressure may
predict dementia in older adults with impaired executive function
(difficulty organizing thoughts and making decisions), but not in those
with memory problems, a new study has found.
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Reuters - Dimebon, a pill being developed for Alzheimer's disease, helped people with Huntington's disease improve their thinking, learning and memory skills, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Reuters - Medicare's move in 2005 to pay doctors to do bladder cancer surgery in their offices rather than in hospitals dramatically raised the number of procedures and overall health costs, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — States require that children have all their immunizations before they can enroll in school. Veterinarians send reminder cards to pet owners when Fido or Tabby is due for a shot. No such safety net exists for adults, however, and especially for the elderly, who are particularly susceptible to many diseases that vaccines can prevent, according to a new report about the low rate of adult immunization.
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Reuters - Changes to Medicare, the federal health plan for the elderly, may be damaging important aspects of cancer care in the United States, according to a study released on Thursday.
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 Reuters - When doctors and staff realized that a cat living in a U.S. nursing home could sense when someone was going to die, the feline, Oscar, was portrayed as a furry grim reaper or four-legged angel of death.
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AP - A dizzying array of choices awaits those searching for a Medicare Advantage plan.
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Reuters - Taking ginkgo biloba, St. John's wort and other widely used herbal supplements may be risky for people on heart disease medication, especially the elderly, according to a medical review released on Monday.
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 AFP/File - Longer lifespans, falling fertility rates and growing ranks of elderly people in Asia can pose problems as serious as the impact of climate change, a leading expert warned Monday.
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HealthDay - FRIDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- The largest study of its kind
finds that Parkinson's disease in the United States is more common in the
Midwest and Northeast, and that whites and Hispanics are twice as likely
to develop the disease as blacks and Asians.
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Reuters - Some elderly women with severe cognitive impairment are getting mammography breast cancer screening even though they are unlikely to ever benefit from it, a new study finds.
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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly people who are
heavy drinkers are more likely to suffer memory and cognitive problems
than mild-to-moderate drinkers, a new study shows.
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AP - Higher Medicare copays, sometimes just a few dollars more, led to fewer doctors visits and to more and longer hospital stays, a large new study reveals.
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 AFP - French researchers said Tuesday they had found a promising new target in the fight against Alzheimer's, the debilitating brain disease that causes irreversible memory loss and dementia.
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research aimed at revealing the nuances of sexuality in the elderly.
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HealthDay - MONDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) Researchers say they've spotted a new
genetic risk factor for Parkinson's disease, as well as a link between the
illness and two other factors, metabolism and vitamin B6.
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HealthDay - MONDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Just in case the world needed
more evidence on the matter, along come four new studies verifying that
exercise is indeed good for you, even critical if you plan to survive to a
vigorous, hardy and tough-boned old age.
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