• Can This Simple Diet Make Your Diabetes Better ?

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:53:08
    What kind of Foods can bring down Your blood sugar levels naturally? It's not as though as you think !

  • Soaking In Your Sleep ? Could Night Sweats Kill You?

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:16:11
    Night Sweats Can Be Sign of Significant Health Issues

  • Anorexia Ruling May Affect Coverage for Mental Illness

    Updated: 2011-08-30 22:53:24
    A U.S. appeals court has ruled that an anorexic woman's insurance company must pay for her treatment at a residential facility because of a California law that requires insurers to provide the same coverage for mental illness as they do for physical illness.

  • Drug Approvals Come to A Near Halt

    Updated: 2011-08-30 17:46:32
    FDA Gives OK To Only 21 Drugs in 2010

  • Hospice Medication Alert: High-dose Citalopram (Celexa)

    Updated: 2011-08-30 16:51:00
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  • Vessel Calcium Points to Brain Disease

    Updated: 2011-08-25 21:00:00
    Calcification in major blood vessels measured with CT scans is not only a risk factor for heart disease but also for white matter lesions and small infarcts within the brain, Dutch researchers said.

  • 3 Surprising Tips for Interviewing Remarkable Caregivers

    Updated: 2011-08-25 15:50:00
    Why HealthBridge Caregiving Resources Our Services Blog About Us Request Care Subscribe by Email Your : email About The senior care blog shares practical tips and advice for senior care success . nbsp It is hosted by Matt Johnson a senior care advocate and our CEO here at HealthBridge . nbsp Follow Me Resources Senior Care 101 Selecting Caregivers Paying for Care Popular Articles How to Pick 8 Types of Dementia Out of a Crowd What Makes a Good Caregiver Great Nintendo vs . Quilting in the Fight to Save Your Brain Home Care Support VA Aid Attendance Pension 3 Big Mistakes When Talking to Your Parents About Elder Care 6 Ways Health Care Reform Will Impact Seniors 250 Senior Citizen Stimulus Checks are in the Mail 10 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Home Care Provider Elder Care Birthday Wish

  • Hospital Medicine is Part of Primary Care

    Updated: 2011-08-22 13:00:00
    Pages Home About Videos Links Tweets Monday , August 22, 2011 Hospital Medicine is Part of Primary Care There has been a lot of policy discussions about the emergence of the hospitalist movement . A decade ago , when a patient was hospitalized , the doctor managing their care in the hospital was usually their primary care doctor . Increasingly , primary care doctors do not manage their patients in the hospital . Instead their care is managed by a breed of specialist known as a hospitalist . Many hospitalists limit their clinical practice to the hospital . It is been debated whether or not having hospital care managed by hospitalists is good for patients . Previous studies have shown that hospitalist management results in a shorter hospital stay . But studies of post hospitalization

  • Revised Seroquel Label: Stronger Warnings

    Updated: 2011-08-19 19:51:00
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  • Update on Opioid Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies

    Updated: 2011-08-16 21:08:00
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  • Is Your Brain Shrinking ?

    Updated: 2011-08-16 18:51:16
    Is the human brain living past it's prime, or are toxins to blame?

  • The True Cause of Depression, Dysthyemia and Anxiety

    Updated: 2011-08-16 18:45:24
    Considering the environmental or external triggers in the root cause of depression.

  • Bread Over Time: Why It Could Make You Sick

    Updated: 2011-08-16 18:30:04
    How Digestive Problem Increase Can Be Explained By Modern Bread-Making

  • Senators Question Use of Psych Drugs in Nursing Homes

    Updated: 2011-08-15 22:18:13
    WASHINGTON -- Two high-ranking senators have urged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to examine potential over-prescribing of atypical antipsychotics to nursing home residents.

  • Hospice, End Stage Dementia, & The Role of Drug Treatment PART 2

    Updated: 2011-08-10 22:26:00
    , , Home Hospice Blog Hospice News Feed Overview of Services Clinical Services Education Services Pharmacy Search Why Choose Us About Us Contact Us Subscribe by Email Your : email Free Whitepaper Outcome Resources on Facebook Hospice Action Network ALERTS Browse by Tag Acetaminophen 2 Agitation 2 alprazolam 1 Alzheimer's 2 anorexia 2 antipsychotics 1 appetite 1 Arcapta Neohaler 1 asthma 1 Baclofen 1 Buprenorphine 2 cancer pain 2 constipation 2 COPD 5 Darvocet 1 Darvon 1 DEA 2 Delirium 2 dementia 5 depression 1 Doxepin 1 drug disposal 1 drug shortages 2 dyspnea 1 Exalgo 1 FDA 14 FDA REMS 4 fentanyl 4 flu vaccine 1 hiccups 1 hospice 24 Hospice Action Network 2 hospice advocacy 2 hospice clinical 9 hospice clinical support 10 hospice compliance 2 hospice Conditions of Participation 2 hospice

  • Sleep Apnea Tied to Worse Cognition

    Updated: 2011-08-09 21:00:00
    Older women with sleep-disordered breathing are more likely to develop cognitive impairment than those who don't have sleep problems, researchers found.

  • Age and HF Linked to Memory Loss

    Updated: 2011-08-08 21:00:00
    Older people with a reduced left ventricular ejection fraction have significant memory impairments, compared with their younger counterparts, researchers reported.

  • The (Ir)Relevance of Medical Research to Older Patients

    Updated: 2011-08-08 13:00:00
    Pages Home About Videos Links Tweets Monday , August 8, 2011 The Ir Relevance of Medical Research to Older Patients Research studies often are conducted as if older patient's don't exist . Even when the disease being studied predominantly effects older persons , the study includes patients that bear little resemblence to the typical older patient . This makes providing the best care for older patients difficult because we have little evidence to inform best care practices . We have discussed several specific examples of this problem on GeriPal see here here and here An important study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine shows these examples are not isolated incidents . Rather , the failure to make clinical research relevant to most older patients is a deeply embedded , pervasive ,

  • Hospice, End Stage Dementia, & the Role of Drug Treatment PART 1

    Updated: 2011-08-04 19:08:00
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  • Are Antidepressants Ineffective for the Treatment of Depression in Dementia?

    Updated: 2011-08-04 15:30:00
    Pages Home About Videos Links Tweets Thursday , August 4, 2011 Are Antidepressants Ineffective for the Treatment of Depression in Dementia Depression is the most common mood disorder in elderly individuals with Alzheimer disease , with prevalence rates somewhere between 15 to 57 One major difficulty in dealing with this issue is the inherent difficulty in diagnosing depression in dementia , as evident in the huge prevalence range that I just cited . The other difficulty is figuring out how to treat . it Antidepressants so far have only showed mixed results in the few studies that have examined their efficacy in Alzheimers . Unfortunately , most of these studies have been either too small or too poor of quality to give much . guidance The Health Technology Assessment Study of the Use of

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