Friday, 31. July 2009
The American Society of Consultant Pharmacists today applauded members of the House Energy & Commerce Committee for taking steps to coordinate care and bend the cost curve for Medicare’s highest cost beneficiaries. Last night the committee unanim
Friday, 31. July 2009
Hampton Roads Ventures , one of the nation’s leading community development and New Markets Tax Credits firms, along with Octagon Partners, a national real estate firm, held a groundbreaking ceremony for the redevelopment of the former Robert E. Lee High
Friday, 31. July 2009
the progressive buildup of plaque in the arteries and a leading cause of coronary heart disease . CHD is the number one cause of death in the United States.
Friday, 31. July 2009
Under economic pressure, states are slashing funding for health services from Connecticut to California. The cuts frustrate providers and lawmakers are looking for ways to limit harm. The
Friday, 31. July 2009
Today, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Al Franken (D-MN) introduced legislation to reform the Medicare payment system to reward hospitals for quality, efficient care. The Medicare Payment Fairness Act of 2009 would reform Medicare by paying hospitals for the quality, not quantity, of care.
Friday, 31. July 2009
The Associated Press reports: “Federal authorities arrested more than 30 suspects, including doctors, and were seeking others in a major Medicare fraud bust Wednesday in New York, Louisiana, Boston and Houston, targeting scams such as ‘arthritis kits’ – expensive braces that many patients never used.
Friday, 31. July 2009
Congress Needs To Think Big About Medicare Fix PoliticoWhen it comes to moving our health system forward and creating stability for the future, we need to think big. And let’s face it: The 800-pound gorilla is Medicare (Rockefeller, 7/30).
Friday, 31. July 2009
Doing something unusual, like knocking on wood or patting yourself on the head, while taking a daily dose of medicine may be an effective strategy to help seniors remember whether they’ve already taken their daily medications, suggests new research from Washington University in St. Louis.
Friday, 31. July 2009
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurologic disease of the brain leading to the irreversible loss of neurons and the loss of intellectual abilities, including memory and reasoning, which become severe enough to impede social or occupational functioning. Alzheimer’s disease is also known as simply Alzheimer’s, and Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (SDAT) .
Friday, 31. July 2009
Older adults who have less strength, poor physical function and low muscle density are at higher risk of being hospitalized compared to adults with more strength and better function. That’s the finding of a new study in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society. The study also found that muscle density, a measure of how much fat compared to lean tissue there is in the muscle, is a more accurate gauge of a person’s risk of hospitalization than muscle mass or size.