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Which Women Might Benefit from Drugs to Prevent Breast...

14 June 2013

New research suggests it depends on certain gene variations

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Short Strolls After Meals May Lower Diabetes Risk

13 June 2013
Walking 15 minutes three times a day was better for blood sugar levels than one 45-minute walk, small study found Source: HealthDay

Mammography Doesn't Reduce Breast Cancer Death Rates

12 June 2013

But U.S. expert cites flaws in study, notes other research came to different conclusions

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Technology state of the art outpaces senior adoption

12 June 2013
For med management – are blister packs the state of the art? Recently I heard about a presentation in a senior housing provider family meeting that should not have surprised me. A pharmacy exec was presenting the benefits and savings of switching residents from pill bottles to blister packs - warning of the sizable penalties associated with continuing with labor-intensive pill bottles. Wal-Mart is deploying these cardboard packaging for a multi-drug regimen across 4600 stores. Medication ...

The future of aging makes news -- the present is less...

9 June 2013
Groundhog Day --the future resurfaces regularly.  The UK media have ‘discovered’ the granny pod, four years after a similar ‘granny cottage’ concept appeared, This is now three years after AARP discovered the granny pod/ aka MedCottage, which AARP described as a portable alternative to nursing homes. Ditto on companion robots (including the ever-popular Paro) from the same UK article. Seriously folks, companion robots are just around the corner, the future is just ahead. Says the Financial ...
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