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Parkinson’s More Common in Northeast, Midwest (HealthDay)
Posted in January 29th, 2010
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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.
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Mammograms may be overused in women with dementia (Reuters)
Posted in January 29th, 2010
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.
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Is it okay to provide childcare benefits to some employees and not others?
Posted in January 29th, 2010
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“Anti-Discrimination” Taken to Its Logical Conclusion
Posted in January 29th, 2010
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Beds (Powered and Manual) - A Global Market Perspective
Posted in January 29th, 2010
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New struggles — and old issues — in construction engineering
Posted in January 29th, 2010
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Single Mom Wins in Court After Losing Job to Care for Sick Child
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Recent Entries
- Delirious Hospital Patients a High-Risk Group, Study Finds (HealthDay)
- Link Between Depression, Cholesterol May Differ by Gender (HealthDay)
- FDA approves larger dose of Pfizer’s Aricept (AP)
- Eisai say FDA approves higher dose Aricept (Reuters)
- Depression May Increase Chances of Getting Alzheimer’s (LiveScience.com)
- ‘Get Moving’ Can Be Vital Advice for Seniors (HealthDay)
- Medicare drug benefit boosts use of heart failure meds (Reuters)
- 94 charged in Medicare scams totaling $251M (AP)
- Doctors, nurses joined Medicare scam, U.S. says (Reuters)
- CORRECTION: Sniffing insulin may help memory lost to Alzheimer’s (Reuters)
