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HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) — Over 2,600 senior citizens
suffer serious elevator-related injuries each year in the United States,
and three-quarters of them are women, according to the results of the
first large-scale study of these events.
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LiveScience.com - Obese mothers put newborns at greater risk for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, stroke, heart disease and other ills, new research suggests.
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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 10 (HealthDay News) — A new study finds a racial
disparity in flu and pneumococcal vaccination rates among U.S.
nursing-home residents: Blacks were 13 percent to 15 percent less likely
to get vaccinated than whites.
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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 10 (HealthDay News) — People with Parkinson’s
disease may experience social difficulties due to the way they talk, a
Canadian study reports.
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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.
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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.
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Reuters - Dimebon, a pill being developed as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, helped people with Huntington’s disease improve their thinking, learning and memory skills, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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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.
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HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) — Decreased handgrip strength in
the elderly is associated with increased risk of death, researchers
say.
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.
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