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The North American Menopause Society on Thursday released a revised position statement that said the benefits of short-term hormone replacement therapy for treatment of menopausal women likely outweigh... |
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Men who have been treated for breast cancer face a significantly high risk of getting cancer once again, according to UC Irvine epidemiologists.
Their study found that more than 10 percent of... |
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Creating meaningful relationships to gain knowledge about today's senior population and their needs while guiding the next generation of physicians is the goal of MUSC's Senior Mentor Program.
The... |
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| Older hospital patients who participate in special care programs that include exercise may go home sooner and incur fewer medical costs than patients receiving standard care, according to a new review... |
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| Leading study author, Dr Jackie Center says: "While women are initially twice as likely as men to have a fracture, once the first break occurs, the risk of a second substantially increases and the protective... |
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After sustaining an initial low-trauma fracture, older men and women have a similar and substantial risk of subsequent fracture, according to a study in the January 24/31 issue of JAMA.
Despite... |
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| Learning appears to slow the development of two brain lesions that are the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, scientists at UC Irvine have discovered. The finding suggests that the elderly, by keeping their... |
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| University of South Florida researchers report that a novel needle-free vaccine approach is effective and safe in clearing brain-damaging plaques from a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. The transdermal... |
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About one in five women residing in India are likely to experience menopause by the age of 41, according to a study conducted by Bangalore, India-based Institute for Social and Economic Change, London's... |
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| UroToday.com- There is no defined recommendation for when to stop prostate cancer (CaP) screening, except when the life expectancy decreases to less than 10 years. In the United States, it is relatively... |
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| Daily use of the antidepressant medications known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) by adults 50 years and older is associated with a doubled risk of some fractures, according to a report... |
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| Older patients (+65 years) who are given pre-visit information booklets or a pre-visit coaching session ask more questions when they see a doctor than untrained patients. The trained patients also get... |
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The Detroit News on Wednesday looked at a plan under consideration by General Motors, Ford and the United Auto Workers to transfer the financial responsibility of retiree health care benefits from the... |
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| Repeating a bone mineral density (BMD) scan up to eight years after an initial BMD appears to provide little additional benefit for predicting fractures among older postmenopausal women, according to a... |
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| Peripheral neuropathy is a degenerative nerve disease with no cure and few effective treatment options - until now. Li Li, professor of kinesiology at LSU, is conducting a study into the benefits of tai... |
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| The Roskamp Institute announced
today the discovery of a new class of drugs that lower the production of
the main pathological protein that causes Alzheimer's disease. The
discovery is detailed in... |
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| Hypothermia - when the body's temperature drops significantly below normal - is especially deadly for the elderly. Older people become hypothermic despite the fact that they are more likely to live inside... |
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An increased number of seniors have "turned to credit cards and home equity to pay medical bills" at a time when "more employers are cutting back on retiree medical and pension benefits," USA Today reports... |
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General Motors, Ford and the United Auto Workers are considering a "potentially revolutionary plan" that would shift the responsibility of billions of dollars in retiree health benefits to the union... |
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| Radiation therapy after lumpectomy and five years of treatment with the drug tamoxifen can dramatically reduce the risk of both cancer recurrence and new tumors in older women with early breast cancer... |
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