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Pet Doors Opening at Assisted Living Centers
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) -- When the elderly woman
first arrived at Brooke Grove Retirement Village in Sandy Spring, Md.,
some of the staffers were skeptical when they saw she had brought her cat
along.
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Nursing Homes Unprepared for Pandemic Flu Fallout
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) -- If an influenza pandemic
swept through the United States, nursing homes might not be prepared to
deal with patient overflow from hospitals, say researchers who looked at
more than 400 nursing homes in Michigan and Nebraska to come to this
conclusion.
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Depression linked with first stroke in elderly
(Reuters)
Reuters - The results of a study in the
current issue of the journal Stroke suggest that there is an
association between depression and an increased risk of having
a first stroke in elderly patients.
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Medicare to Pay Bonuses for 'E-Prescribing'
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) -- Starting next year, doctors
can earn additional money from Medicare if they use electronic prescribing
systems, U.S. health officials said Monday.
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Health officials tout computer prescribing
(AP)
AP - Those hard-to-read scribbled prescriptions from doctors could soon become a rarity. Beginning Jan. 1, the federal government will boost Medicare's payments to doctors that send prescriptions electronically to a pharmacy rather than writing them out on paper and handing them to the patient.
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Mass. woman diagnosed with rare brain disease
(AP)
AP - An elderly woman has been diagnosed with a rare brain disorder, state health officials said Monday.
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Drug restores speech in Alzheimer's; experts worry
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Alzheimer's patients given a popular
rheumatoid arthritis drug showed seemingly dramatic
improvements in a small study, but some doctors worried that
the early findings will raise premature hopes in patients and
their families.
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Falls Are Top Cause of Injury, Death Among Elderly
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - SATURDAY, July 19 (HealthDay News) -- Falls are a leading cause
of serious injury and death among elderly people in the United States, and
most of those falls occur in the home, says the American Geriatric Society
(AGS).
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Alzheimer's Research Brings Progress, Setbacks
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, July 18 (HealthDay News) -- It's one step forward, one
step back in the search for treatments against Alzheimer's disease.
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Russian antihistamine drug does well in Alzheimer's test
(AFP)
 AFP - A nearly forgotten Russian-made drug, formulated to combat hay fever, helps improve cognitive abilities in patients with Alzheimer's disease, according to the results of a year-long trial published on Thursday.
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