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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1428 health Seniors/Aging News en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:03:11 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1428 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090703/hl_hsn/newweaponsinfightagainsttb hsn/20090703/newweaponsinfightagainsttb HealthDay health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:03:11 GMT HealthDay - FRIDAY, July 3 (HealthDay News) -- Extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis might someday meet its match in two drugs now used to treat Parkinson's disease, suggests a new study. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/hl_nm/us_urinary_woes nm/20090703/us_urinary_woes Reuters health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:34:59 GMT Reuters - An intervention including drug and behavior therapy may help curb frequent nighttime urination or "nocturia" in elderly men, researchers have found. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090703/hl_hsn/livingaloneincreasesoddsofdevelopingdementia hsn/20090703/livingaloneincreasesoddsofdevelopingdementia HealthDay health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:48:52 GMT HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Middle-aged adults who live alone are twice as likely to develop dementia or Alzheimer's disease later in life compared to those who are married or live with a partner. And the risk is three times higher among those who are divorced or widowed, according to a new study by Swedish and Finnish researchers. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/hl_nm/us_tb_drugs nm/20090703/us_tb_drugs Reuters health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:17:17 GMT Reuters - Drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease show promise as a new way to stem the rise of drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_afp/uspharmacompanyjohnsonelan afp/20090702/uspharmacompanyjohnsonelan AFP health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:20:01 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_afp/uspharmacompanyjohnsonelan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246565961278-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=gqqTSuMGv9JdQhuc.iyV9A--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="An Alzheimers patient at a hospital. US health care giant Johnson & Johnson is to take up an 18.4 percent stake in Irish drugmaker Elan and acquire rights to Elan's Alzheimer's disease trial drugs, the companies said Thursday.(AFP/File/Jean-Philippe Ksiazek)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US health care giant Johnson & Johnson is to take up an 18.4 percent stake in Irish drugmaker Elan and acquire rights to Elan's Alzheimer's disease trial drugs, the companies said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_afp/uspharmacompanyjohnsonelan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246565961278-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=gqqTSuMGv9JdQhuc.iyV9A--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="An Alzheimers patient at a hospital. US health care giant Johnson & Johnson is to take up an 18.4 percent stake in Irish drugmaker Elan and acquire rights to Elan's Alzheimer's disease trial drugs, the companies said Thursday.(AFP/File/Jean-Philippe Ksiazek)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090702/hl_hsn/growthhormonemaybuildmuscleinoldermen hsn/20090702/growthhormonemaybuildmuscleinoldermen HealthDay health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:49:09 GMT HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly men who exercised and received the growth hormone known as "mechano growth factor" (MGF) showed increased muscle mass, according to a British study. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090702/hl_hsn/withmedicareplandrugspendingmaybeup hsn/20090702/withmedicareplandrugspendingmaybeup HealthDay health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:49:06 GMT HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Older people who signed up for Medicare's prescription drug coverage, called Part D, spent more on drugs after enrolling than they had before but less on other types of medical care, researchers have found. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_he_me/us_med_obesity_rankings ap/20090701/us_med_obesity_rankings AP health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:23:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_he_me/us_med_obesity_rankings"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.49d2104749434bf8b700d3df2b7c4d34.obesity_states__gfx323.jpg?x=130&y=127&q=85&sig=ZDSm7mQRqmhe95QGI7LkxQ--" align="left" height="127" width="130" alt="U.S. map shows adult obesity prevalence by state" border="0" /></a>AP - Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers. It's time for the nation's annual obesity rankings and, outside of fairly lean Colorado, there's little good news. In 31 states, more than one in four adults are obese, says a new report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_he_me/us_med_obesity_rankings"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.49d2104749434bf8b700d3df2b7c4d34.obesity_states__gfx323.jpg?x=130&y=127&q=85&sig=ZDSm7mQRqmhe95QGI7LkxQ--" align="left" height="127" width="130" alt="photo" title="U.S. map shows adult obesity prevalence by state" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_he_me/us_med_health_insurance ap/20090701/us_med_health_insurance AP health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:45:02 GMT AP - The percentage of Americans with private health insurance has hit its lowest mark in 50 years, according to two new government reports. About 65 percent of non-elderly Americans had private insurance in 2008, down from 67 percent the year before, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_he_me/us_med_cardiac_arrest ap/20090701/us_med_cardiac_arrest AP health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:02:24 GMT AP - You don't have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a big Medicare study concludes. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/hl_nm/us_usa_medicare_fraud nm/20090701/us_usa_medicare_fraud Reuters health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:47:29 GMT Reuters - Since 2006, U.S. taxpayers have paid nearly $155,000 to send home health nurses to inject twice-daily insulin shots for an elderly, diabetic Miami man. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090701/hl_hsn/statinsmightstaveoffalzheimers hsn/20090701/statinsmightstaveoffalzheimers HealthDay health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:48:41 GMT HealthDay - TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment with a cholesterol-lowering drug might protect against Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090701/hl_hsn/hormonesmayaffectneurologicaldiseaserisk hsn/20090701/hormonesmayaffectneurologicaldiseaserisk HealthDay health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:48:33 GMT HealthDay - TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Fluctuating hormone levels may explain trends in the timing of women's susceptibility to neurological diseases such as Parkinson's, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, Tourette's and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, new research suggests. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090630/hl_nm/us_drugs_research nm/20090630/us_drugs_research Reuters health Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:48:18 GMT Reuters - An Institute of Medicine committee urged the U.S. government on Tuesday to fund studies comparing treatments for Alzheimer's disease, attention deficit disorder and other conditions as part of a new effort to determine which strategies work best. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/hl_afp/healthflusaudiislamhajj afp/20090630/healthflusaudiislamhajj AFP health Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:37:17 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/hl_afp/healthflusaudiislamhajj"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246383409802-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=53P02REqzSyc3Kk4qCWL3A--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="A Saudi policeman helps an elderly Muslim pilgrim to climb steps at the site of the "Jamarat" ritual, the last and most dangerous rite of the annual hajj which symbolises stoning Satan, in the Saudi holy city of Mina in 2008. Saudi Arabia warned elderly Muslims and pregnant women on Tuesday against undertaking the hajj pilgrimage this year as the threat threat of swine flu mounts worldwide.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Saudi Arabia warned elderly Muslims and pregnant women on Tuesday against undertaking the hajj pilgrimage this year as the threat threat of swine flu mounts worldwide.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/hl_afp/healthflusaudiislamhajj"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246383409802-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=53P02REqzSyc3Kk4qCWL3A--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Saudi policeman helps an elderly Muslim pilgrim to climb steps at the site of the "Jamarat" ritual, the last and most dangerous rite of the annual hajj which symbolises stoning Satan, in the Saudi holy city of Mina in 2008. Saudi Arabia warned elderly Muslims and pregnant women on Tuesday against undertaking the hajj pilgrimage this year as the threat threat of swine flu mounts worldwide.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090630/hl_hsn/47000elderlyhurtinwalkercanemishapseachyear hsn/20090630/47000elderlyhurtinwalkercanemishapseachyear HealthDay health Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:49:26 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, June 29 (HealthDay News) -- Each year, more than 47,000 elderly Americans are treated at hospital emergency departments for injuries from falls that involve walkers and canes, according to a federal government study released Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090626/hl_time/08599190657900 time/20090626/08599190657900 Time.com health Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:40:00 GMT Time.com - Growing evidence suggests that social activity is associated with preserving mental and physical fitness in older age http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090625/hl_nm/us_insurance_options nm/20090625/us_insurance_options Reuters health Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:54:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090625/hl_nm/us_insurance_options"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090625/i/r3612879810.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=Oz_WfgFW0FDk.nQ.MXYyRg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="A couple walks down a corridor for tests at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington May 18, 2009. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A nationwide health insurance exchange that includes a Medicare-like government option could save $1.8 trillion more than if only private plans are offered, a prominent private U.S. health policy group said on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090625/hl_nm/us_insurance_options"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090625/i/r3612879810.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=Oz_WfgFW0FDk.nQ.MXYyRg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="A couple walks down a corridor for tests at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington May 18, 2009. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090625/ap_on_he_me/us_poison_control ap/20090625/us_poison_control AP health Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:46:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090625/ap_on_he_me/us_poison_control"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090625/capt.2de7c2a5b39e41c7a6ec64df6b819d7b.poison_control_fx102.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=ML9hjJ1G4L9uFpj_Fvjrgg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="In this photo taken June 9, 2009, toxicology management specialist Winnie Tai answers a call at the California Poison Control Center in San Francisco. Each day, skeleton crews of doctors, nurses and pharmacists field nearly 900 calls a day around California from people such as a mother whose child swallowed flea repellant and an elderly man who accidentally doubled up on his medication. But the poison control centers that have been a lifeline for millions of residents could go dark this summer under the governor's plan for closing the state's $24.3 billion deficit. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)" border="0" /></a>AP - Each day, skeleton crews of doctors, nurses and pharmacists field almost 900 calls a day around California from people such as a mother whose child swallowed flea repellant and an elderly man who accidentally doubled up on his medication.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090625/ap_on_he_me/us_poison_control"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090625/capt.2de7c2a5b39e41c7a6ec64df6b819d7b.poison_control_fx102.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=ML9hjJ1G4L9uFpj_Fvjrgg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo taken June 9, 2009, toxicology management specialist Winnie Tai answers a call at the California Poison Control Center in San Francisco. Each day, skeleton crews of doctors, nurses and pharmacists field nearly 900 calls a day around California from people such as a mother whose child swallowed flea repellant and an elderly man who accidentally doubled up on his medication. But the poison control centers that have been a lifeline for millions of residents could go dark this summer under the governor's plan for closing the state's $24.3 billion deficit. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090625/hl_hsn/stayupbeatactivetokeepthemindyoung hsn/20090625/stayupbeatactivetokeepthemindyoung HealthDay health Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:49:20 GMT HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) -- To stave off the mental decline associated with old age, engage in intellectually challenging activities, maintain a positive outlook and keep up your social life.