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NH Senator Leads Successful Bipartisan Effort in Congress to Stop $3.8 Million State Medicare Cut

Coleman Praised for Leading U.S. Senate Effort to Stop Bush Medicare Cuts From Going into Effect

Senate, House Members Demonstrate Strong, Bipartisan Leadership in Helping to Avert $770 Million FY 2009 Cut in Medicare Funding for Care of America's Seniors

The Los Angeles Jewish Home, the largest single-source provider of senior housing inLos Angeles, has selected longtime Home board member and past president of Jewish Big Brothers of Los Angeles David Swartz as its new board of directors' chair effective

Dr. William Dement, founder of the world's first sleep disorders center at Stanford University and a leading authority on sleep medicine, spoke to Amgen employees in a wellness seminar hosted at theirSouth San Francisco campus on June 18. The presentatio

CMS on Monday announced that it has granted Massachusetts a third extension on a Medicaid waiver that would allow the state to divert $385 million in federal funds for the program towards funding for the state's new health care law, the AP/Boston Globe reports.

AARP issued a statement commemorating the 43rd anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid. The statement, from AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond, follows: "The passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 was an important event in America's history. Congress and the Administration worked together to solve a national crisis by providing health care to the most vulnerable among us.

Summaries of two recent developments related to efforts by congressional Republicans on Medicare issues appear below.Medicare fraud: Senate Republicans on Monday held a forum to highlight their efforts to reduce Medicare fraud, CQ HealthBeat reports. In June, Sens. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced a bill (

Adiponectin, a protein produced by fat cells, may play a pivotal and counterintuitive role in cardiovascular health for older Americans according to a new study accepted for publication in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). As people lose weight, the concentration level of adiponectin in the bloodstream increases. In previous studies, high adiponectin concentration has been associated with lower occurrence of diabetes and cholesterol abnormalities.

US scientists studying sleep processes in rats found that aging tended to impair the brain's ability to "replay" memories during sleep, a consolidation process that is important for converting recent memories into long term ones. However, impaired memory replay was not found in all the older rats tested in the study.