Reuters - Medicare should cut U.S. government payments to private insurers and home healthcare providers, an advisory panel said in nonbinding recommendations released on Monday.

Time.com - The weight of scientific evidence indicates that flu vaccines do not reduce mortality or infection rates in the elderly, according to British researchers. Why do we keep using them?

Reuters - Medicare should cut U.S. government payments to private insurers and home healthcare providers, an advisory panel said in nonbinding recommendations released on Monday.

HealthDay - MONDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) — Noting that brain scans
suggest that a new drug reduces plaque deposits in the brains of certain
Alzheimer’s patients by 25 percent compared to a placebo, researchers say
the scans could become a useful tool to study treatments for the
disease.

Time.com - The weight of scientific evidence indicates that flu vaccines do not reduce mortality or infection rates in the elderly, according to British researchers. Why do we keep using them?

Reuters - New imaging technology suggests an experimental drug for Alzheimer’s reduces clumps of plaque in the brain by around 25 percent, lifting hopes for a medicine that disappointed in clinical tests two years ago.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) — Mirapex ER (pramipexole
dihydrochloride extended-release) has been approved by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration as a once-daily option to treat early Parkinson’s
disease, drug maker Boehringer Ingelheim said in a news release.

Time.com - About 10% to 15% of Americans, mostly elderly, suffer from chronic pain bad enough to interfere with daily life, but aren’t they getting the medications they need?

HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) — Elderly people who have been
hospitalized have an increased risk of cognitive decline.

Reuters - Elderly adults with poor vision, particularly untreated vision problems, may have a higher risk of developing dementia than those with better vision, a new study suggests.