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Title: Tamoxifen Cuts Fracture Risk: Study
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Title: Older Diabetics With Depression Face Higher Death Rate
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Title: Mental Barriers Block Obese Women From Exercise
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Title: Some Arteries Opened Safely Without Heparin
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Seniors / Aging News From Medical News Today
General Motors on Jan. 1, 2009, will cease to provide health care coverage for more than 100,000 retirees and their dependents and instead will add $300 to their monthly pension checks to purchase insurance, the Detroit Free Press reports. The move is an effort to reduce spending by GM, which spent $3.
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New research published in the October issue of Journal of the American College of Surgeons challenges the current opinion that patients in their eighties, who are often deemed "high-risk" due to their advanced age, should not undergo carotid endarterectomy - a stroke-preventing surgical procedure that clears blockages from the neck's carotid arteries.
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Boston Medical Center (BMC) has received a $5,807,469 grant over five years from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to fund the Boston Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center. BMC's Pepper Center is one of only 11 Pepper Centers in the country. The Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center Program was established in honor of Claude D. Pepper, the late U.S. senator from Florida.
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Britain's post-war baby boomers, associated throughout their lives with social change, are failing to break new ground in their approach to growing old. Academic research supported by the Economic and Social Research Council and Arts and Humanities Research Council shows that most members of the baby boom generation - often regarded as the first teenagers of a more affluent consumer society - have modest ideas for their retirement.
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Convenient online registration to the IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis 2008, at greatly discounted rates, is available only until October 31, 2008. To benefit from lower rates and easy registration, please visit http://www.iofbonehealth.org/wco/2008/homepage.html. Special registration fees are available for participants from non-OECD countries and for IOF members.
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DSS Research, the largest research and analytics firm dedicated to the market information needs of health insurance organizations, released today the latest wave of its quarterly, national SeniorTrax® Survey of the 65 and over population. The most recent survey data completed in early September with 580 seniors 65 and over concludes that most seniors feel health care in the US is more likely to improve under the leadership of Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama.
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Two converging trends - rapid growth in the population of older Americans and declining numbers of geriatricians practicing in the U.S. - are forcing the field of geriatrics to refine its scope, according to a series of articles on the future of the field in October's Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS). Over the next two decades, the number of older Americans will nearly double, to 70 million.
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Reacting to a National Audit Office report, Feeding Back? Learning from complaints handling in Health and Social Care, which shows the complaints system for health and social care services is in need of improvement, Lizzie McLennan, Senior Social Care Policy Officer for Help the Aged, says: "Today's report shows that worryingly, complaining about health and social care services can be a difficult and complex experience.
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Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) has been associated with a new gene, according to an article released on October 7, 2008 in The Lancet. Macular degeneration is characterized by visual impairment due to damage to the retina. In developed countries, AMD is the most common type of vision loss.
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"Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Older Urban African- Americans: Individual and Neighborhood Associations" (.pdf), Journal of the National Medical Association: The study, led by researchers from the University of Maryland
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Women, the elderly, and patients admitted to the emergency department on weekends are all less likely to receive same-day coronary angioplasty for a life-threatening heart attack in Florida, University of South Florida researchers found. Their study was published this month (Oct. 1) in the American Journal of Cardiology.
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NHFA Care Advice notify us that they are taking calls from families of older people unable to meet their care costs - caused by both delays in the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) processing applications to register Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPA) or appoint deputies; and the disastrous slump in house sales. Indeed, figures from The Ministry of Justice show that in the six months to end of March, only 1,256 applications out of a total of 9,623 were registered.
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HHS Assistant Secretary for Aging Josefina G. Carbonell announced that Texas has received $65,000 to assist in relief efforts as a result of devastation created by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, which struck the Texas coast and surrounding communities late this summer.
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Scientists have identified one of the genes implicated in age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of blindness in developed countries. The research, published online in the Lancet, adds to the growing understanding of the genetics of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which the researchers believe should ultimately lead to novel treatments for the disease.
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The US government's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced its first ever guidelines for physical activity for Americans that say adults should have 2.5 hours of moderate physical aerobic exercise a week, and children should have an hour or more of physical activity a day. The new HHS publication is titled "2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans"; it covers all ages, and it can be downloaded from the HHS website.
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University of Iowa researchers and colleagues in France have identified a gene variant that causes a potentially fatal human heart rhythm disorder called sinus node disease. Also known as "sick sinus syndrome," the disease affects approximately one in 600 heart patients older than 65 and is responsible for 50 percent or more of the permanent pacemaker placements in the United States.
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Older and younger patients with renal cancer derive similar benefit from sorafenib therapy and tolerate the drug equally well, according to a study published online October 7 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Although the risk of being diagnosed with cancer increases with age, relatively few older patients participate in clinical trials.
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Four Japanese researchers were awarded the 2008 SNM Wagner-Torizuka Fellowship and are currently studying in the United States through 2010 as part of the two-year program.
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The latest study by Dr. Sandra Dial from the Research Institute of the MUHC, McGill University, and Attending Staff in the Intensive Care Unit at the Jewish General Hospital, questions the assumption held by a vast majority of medical professionals that Clostridium difficile (C.difficile) infections are essentially always preceded by antibiotic use. This finding could have a major impact on how patients with diarrhea are evaluated upon their admission to the hospital.
In Mouse Model Of Premature Aging Disorder Anti-cancer Drug Prevents, Reverses Cardiovascular Damage
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 An experimental anti-cancer drug can prevent -- and even reverse -- potentially fatal cardiovascular damage in a mouse model of progeria, a rare genetic disorder that causes the most dramatic form of human premature aging, National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers reported today. In a study published in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
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A screening program for colon cancer in patients starting ten years prior to Medicare eligibility, at age 55 instead of Medicare's 65, would save at least two dollars for every dollar spent, according to a new study presented at the American College of Gastroenterology's 73rd Annual Scientific Meeting in Orlando. As people get older, their risk of developing polyps and colorectal cancer increases.
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There is often a lack of adequate communication between health care providers and those facing terminal conditions, according to a series of articles in the latest issue of The Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences (Vol. 63, No. 3). This topic is of concern to older adults, because they comprise the vast majority - about 70 percent - of those contending with multiple chronic medical problems.
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Despite recent examples of young and middle-aged celebrities being diagnosed with breast cancer, more than half of breast cancers happen in women over age 65. That's why experts at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center recommend women continue to receive yearly breast screenings through their 70s. "Women don't seem to take the risk of breast cancer as they get older seriously.
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With the elderly community set to be celebrated on International Day of Older Persons (1 October), a leading professional indemnity provider is urging its members to remain alert to potential indicators that senior citizens have been abused. The Medical Protection Society (MPS) says it is issuing the advice partly because there is a greater tendency in the media, and society generally, to focus on abuse of children, rather than that of older people, which often remains invisible.
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STAYING SHARP IN CONCORD: LEADING BRAIN EXPERTS DISCUSS SUCCESSFUL AGING WHAT: Brain function and health will be the focus of the Staying Sharp session on October 4 at the Embassy Suites Hotel Resort and Conference Center in Concord, NC.
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