Friday, 27. October 2006
Black Medicare beneficiaries “fare worse” than white beneficiaries “even when they belong to the same health plan,” an indication that health care disparities “cannot be attributed to individual, inferior doctors,” according to a study published on Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Boston Globe reports. [click link for full article]
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Friday, 27. October 2006
Title: Flu Shots: Study Questions Value
Category: Health News
Created: 10/27/2006 2:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/27/2006
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Friday, 27. October 2006
Title: Exercise Keeps Colds at Bay
Category: Health News
Created: 10/27/2006 2:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/27/2006
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Friday, 27. October 2006
Title: Cold Virus Might Harm Long-Term Memory
Category: Health News
Created: 10/27/2006 2:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/27/2006
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Friday, 27. October 2006
Nearly half of 60 veteran health centers surveyed have limited mental health services available to veterans because of an influx of new patients who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report released Thursday by the Democratic staff of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, CQ Today reports. The centers provide individual and group counseling, mainly for treating post-traumatic stress disorder. [click link for full article]
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Friday, 27. October 2006
Today AARP released a new in-depth study, which dispels the common myth that a majority of the 60+ population packs up their belongings and moves to warmer climates as they age.
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Thursday, 26. October 2006
HALIFAX (CP) – Unions representing thousands of hospital workers in Nova Scotia have accused their employer of deceiving them about pensions as they moved closer to a strike that could disrupt health care throughout the province.
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Thursday, 26. October 2006
MONTREAL (CP) – Nine people have died in a Quebec hospital in recent months from what doctors worry is a new and more powerful strain of C. difficile, sparking fears of another deadly outbreak.
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Thursday, 26. October 2006
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) – First comes nausea and diarrhea. Then the facial muscles relax, followed by kidney failure, paralysis and often death.
Posted in Senior Health News by WILL WEISSERT -
Thursday, 26. October 2006
TORONTO (CP) – Avastin, a drug approved in Canada to treat advanced colorectal cancer, has been linked to two serious complications in a small number of patients, the drug’s manufacturer advised Friday.
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