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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/health/seniors-aging health Seniors/Aging News en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:20 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/health/seniors-aging http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100210/hl_hsn/medicarecostsavingmovescanbackfire hsn/20100210/medicarecostsavingmovescanbackfire HealthDay health Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:20 GMT HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- After Medicare sweetened payments for simple office-based endoscopic procedures, doctors in one New York City practice performed many more in-office bladder biopsies, but the volume of hospital procedures stayed roughly the same, a new study finds. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100209/hl_hsn/cleaningagenttiedtoparkinsonsinstudy hsn/20100209/cleaningagenttiedtoparkinsonsinstudy HealthDay health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:49:43 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- The industrial cleaner trichloroethylene (TCE) has been linked to an increased risk of Parkinson's disease, U.S. researchers say. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100209/hl_hsn/handgripstrengthhelpspredictdeathriskinelderly hsn/20100209/handgripstrengthhelpspredictdeathriskinelderly HealthDay health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:49:38 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Decreased handgrip strength in the elderly is associated with increased risk of death, researchers say. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100209/hl_hsn/highbloodpressuremaypredictdementiainsomeseniors hsn/20100209/highbloodpressuremaypredictdementiainsomeseniors HealthDay health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:49:33 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- High blood pressure may predict dementia in older adults with impaired executive function (difficulty organizing thoughts and making decisions), but not in those with memory problems, a new study has found. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/hl_nm/us_huntingtons_dimebon nm/20100208/us_huntingtons_dimebon Reuters health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:47:51 GMT Reuters - Dimebon, a pill being developed for Alzheimer's disease, helped people with Huntington's disease improve their thinking, learning and memory skills, U.S. researchers said on Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/hl_nm/us_cancer_bladder_medicare nm/20100208/us_cancer_bladder_medicare Reuters health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:17:05 GMT Reuters - Medicare's move in 2005 to pay doctors to do bladder cancer surgery in their offices rather than in hospitals dramatically raised the number of procedures and overall health costs, U.S. researchers said on Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100204/sc_mcclatchy/3418882 mcclatchy/20100204/3418882 McClatchy Newspapers health Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:39:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON &mdash; States require that children have all their immunizations before they can enroll in school. Veterinarians send reminder cards to pet owners when Fido or Tabby is due for a shot. No such safety net exists for adults, however, and especially for the elderly, who are particularly susceptible to many diseases that vaccines can prevent, according to a new report about the low rate of adult immunization. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100204/hl_nm/us_healthcare_usa_cancer nm/20100204/us_healthcare_usa_cancer Reuters health Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:15:36 GMT Reuters - Changes to Medicare, the federal health plan for the elderly, may be damaging important aspects of cancer care in the United States, according to a study released on Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/hl_nm/us_cat_death nm/20100202/us_cat_death Reuters health Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:14:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/hl_nm/us_cat_death"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100131/capt.354f9f177cf046688207af8b8f463b45.death_cat_ny111.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=5uSJV51wKXLrTC5VKGFxzg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="FILE - In this July 23, 2007 file photo, Oscar, a hospice cat with an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, walks past an activity room at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, R.I. Dr. David Dosa profiles Oscar in a book released this week, 'Making Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat.' (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - When doctors and staff realized that a cat living in a U.S. nursing home could sense when someone was going to die, the feline, Oscar, was portrayed as a furry grim reaper or four-legged angel of death.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/hl_nm/us_cat_death"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100131/capt.354f9f177cf046688207af8b8f463b45.death_cat_ny111.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=5uSJV51wKXLrTC5VKGFxzg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this July 23, 2007 file photo, Oscar, a hospice cat with an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, walks past an activity room at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, R.I. Dr. David Dosa profiles Oscar in a book released this week, 'Making Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat.' (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_on_he_me/us_money___health_medicare_advantage ap/20100202/us_money___health_medicare_advantage AP health Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:04:00 GMT AP - A dizzying array of choices awaits those searching for a Medicare Advantage plan. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100201/hl_nm/us_heart_supplements nm/20100201/us_heart_supplements Reuters health Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:14:10 GMT Reuters - Taking ginkgo biloba, St. John's wort and other widely used herbal supplements may be risky for people on heart disease medication, especially the elderly, according to a medical review released on Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100201/hl_afp/asiapopulationhealthinsuranceelderly afp/20100201/asiapopulationhealthinsuranceelderly AFP/File health Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:10:43 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100201/hl_afp/asiapopulationhealthinsuranceelderly"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100201/capt.photo_1265007893051-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=haMXPoh0sOFvmAGdR.Z93Q--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="File photo of a group of elderly Chinese people enjoying a day in Beijing. Longer lifespans, falling fertility rates and growing ranks of elderly people in Asia can pose problems as serious as the impact of climate change, a leading expert warned Monday.(AFP/File/AFP)" border="0" /></a>AFP/File - Longer lifespans, falling fertility rates and growing ranks of elderly people in Asia can pose problems as serious as the impact of climate change, a leading expert warned Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100201/hl_afp/asiapopulationhealthinsuranceelderly"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100201/capt.photo_1265007893051-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=haMXPoh0sOFvmAGdR.Z93Q--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="File photo of a group of elderly Chinese people enjoying a day in Beijing. Longer lifespans, falling fertility rates and growing ranks of elderly people in Asia can pose problems as serious as the impact of climate change, a leading expert warned Monday.(AFP/File/AFP)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP/File) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100130/hl_hsn/parkinsonsmorecommoninnortheastmidwest hsn/20100130/parkinsonsmorecommoninnortheastmidwest HealthDay health Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:49:03 GMT HealthDay - FRIDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- The largest study of its kind finds that Parkinson's disease in the United States is more common in the Midwest and Northeast, and that whites and Hispanics are twice as likely to develop the disease as blacks and Asians. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100129/hl_nm/us_mammograms nm/20100129/us_mammograms Reuters health Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:52:33 GMT Reuters - Some elderly women with severe cognitive impairment are getting mammography breast cancer screening even though they are unlikely to ever benefit from it, a new study finds. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100128/hl_hsn/toomuchalcoholimpairsseniorsthinking hsn/20100128/toomuchalcoholimpairsseniorsthinking HealthDay health Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:48:38 GMT HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly people who are heavy drinkers are more likely to suffer memory and cognitive problems than mild-to-moderate drinkers, a new study shows. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_on_he_me/us_med_medicare_costs ap/20100127/us_med_medicare_costs AP health Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:00:21 GMT AP - Higher Medicare copays, sometimes just a few dollars more, led to fewer doctors visits and to more and longer hospital stays, a large new study reveals. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100126/hl_afp/healthdiseasealzheimersdrugs afp/20100126/healthdiseasealzheimersdrugs AFP health Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:58:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100126/hl_afp/healthdiseasealzheimersdrugs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100126/capt.photo_1264546670090-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=QGHj2q.WFSQV0AVbEESEqQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A woman (L) holds the hand of her husband suffering from Alzheimer's disease. French researchers said Tuesday they had found a promising new target in the fight against Alzheimer's, the debilitating brain disease that causes irreversible memory loss and dementia.(AFP/File/Sebastien Bozon)" border="0" /></a>AFP - French researchers said Tuesday they had found a promising new target in the fight against Alzheimer's, the debilitating brain disease that causes irreversible memory loss and dementia.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100126/hl_afp/healthdiseasealzheimersdrugs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100126/capt.photo_1264546670090-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=QGHj2q.WFSQV0AVbEESEqQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A woman (L) holds the hand of her husband suffering from Alzheimer's disease. French researchers said Tuesday they had found a promising new target in the fight against Alzheimer's, the debilitating brain disease that causes irreversible memory loss and dementia.(AFP/File/Sebastien Bozon)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100126/sc_livescience/seniorshaverewardingsexlives livescience/20100126/seniorshaverewardingsexlives LiveScience.com health Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:40:18 GMT LiveScience.com - Senior citizens often have rewarding sex lives, according to new research aimed at revealing the nuances of sexuality in the elderly. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100126/hl_hsn/genesdietoffernewcluestoparkinsonsdisease hsn/20100126/genesdietoffernewcluestoparkinsonsdisease HealthDay health Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:48:51 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) Researchers say they've spotted a new genetic risk factor for Parkinson's disease, as well as a link between the illness and two other factors, metabolism and vitamin B6. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100126/hl_hsn/moreproofexerciseleadstohealthieraging hsn/20100126/moreproofexerciseleadstohealthieraging HealthDay health Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:48:46 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Just in case the world needed more evidence on the matter, along come four new studies verifying that exercise is indeed good for you, even critical if you plan to survive to a vigorous, hardy and tough-boned old age.