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California's Physicians And Seniors Urge Congress To Protect Access To Care By Strengthening Medicare The California Medical Association (CMA) and AARP are calling on the U.S. House of Representatives to pass H.R. 3961, which would ease the difficulty seniors now face in finding a physician who accepts Medicare. The legislation would repeal Medicare's flawed payment structure, known as the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), and replace it with a stable foundation that would encourage physician participation. ...more	20 Nov 2009
Residential Design For Persons With Neurological Disability IOS Press announces the November 2009 publication of a special issue of NeuroRehabilitation: An International Journal devoted to residential design for persons with neurodisability. ...more	20 Nov 2009
Saliva Proteins Change As Women Age In a step toward using human saliva to tell whether those stiff joints, memory lapses, and other telltale signs of aging are normal or red flags for disease, scientists are describing how the protein content of women's saliva change with advancing age. The discovery could lead to a simple, noninvasive test for better diagnosing and treating certain age-related diseases in women, they suggest in a report in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research, a monthly publication. ...more	20 Nov 2009
FDA Approves New Drug For Pain That Persists After Shingles The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday that it has approved Qutenza (capsaicin) 8% patch for the treatment of post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN), an often excruciating pain that can persist for weeks, months and even years in 10 to 15 per cent of people who get shingles. The medicated skin patch, which is made by Lohmann Therapie-Systems AD of Andernach, Germany and distributed in the US by NeurogesX Inc. ...more	19 Nov 2009
Seniors Struggle With Drug Costs While Congress Debates Medicare 'Doughnut Hole" Minnesota Public Radio reports: "Since 2006, senior citizens have been able to choose plans for Medicare prescription drug coverage, but that coverage contains a gap known as the 'doughnut hole,' a gap that health care reform plans being debated in Congress would address." "Under the House health care bill, Medicare would eliminate the gap within a decade. ...more	19 Nov 2009
An Overactive Immune Response Linked To Viral Infections Among Elderly Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that exaggerated responses of the immune system explain why the elderly succumb to viral infections more readily than younger people. Published in the November 19 Cell Host & Microbe, the study bucks the general belief that declining immune responses are to blame for susceptibility to viral infections. ...more	19 Nov 2009
Epiphany Announces Positive Results From Its Phase 2b Trial In Shingles Epiphany Biosciences announced results from its Phase 2b dose-ranging study of EPB-348 (valomaciclovir) in patients with shingles (herpes zoster) infection. The study's primary endpoint was non-inferiority of once-daily valomaciclovir compared to thrice-daily valacyclovir in terms of time to complete crusting of the shingles rash. ...more	19 Nov 2009
Scientists Find Molecular Trigger That Helps Prevent Aging And Disease Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine set out to address a question that has been challenging scientists for years: How do dietary restriction-and the reverse, overconsumption-produce protective effects against aging and disease? An answer lies in a two-part study led by Charles ...more	19 Nov 2009
Collaboration With University Of Washington Aims To Prevent Dementia, Including Alzheimer's Every two years, 2,000 senior Group Health patients check in with the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) study. The joint project between Group Health Research Institute and the University of Washington (UW) focuses on finding ways to delay or prevent dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, and declines in memory and thinking. It aims to deepen understanding of how the body - especially the brain - ages. ...more	19 Nov 2009
Vitamin B Niacin Offers No Additional Benefit To Statin Therapy In Seniors Already Diagnosed With Coronary Artery Disease The routine prescription of extended-release niacin, a B vitamin (1,500 milligrams daily), in combination with traditional cholesterol-lowering therapy offers no extra benefit in correcting arterial narrowing and diminishing plaque buildup in seniors who already have coronary artery disease, a new vascular imaging study from Johns Hopkins experts shows. ...more	19 Nov 2009
Free Personal Care For Older People In Their Own Home, UK Alzheimer's Society has today welcomed the recognition of people with dementia in the Queen's speech and called for dementia to be a priority for all political parties. Responding to proposals to give people with the highest needs free personal care, Alzheimer's Society called for more detail and warned that both money and improved quality of home care was needed to make proposals a success. ...more	19 Nov 2009
Technology To Help Elderly People Stay Healthy At Home In a collaboration between Kaiser Health News and ...more	18 Nov 2009
Wisconsin Town Has Highest Rate Of Living Wills, Lowest Cost Of Care NPR reports on a town in Wisconsin with the highest rates of living wills in the country. "[N]early all adults who die in La Crosse, 96 percent of them, die with a completed advance directive. â�¦ But it's expensive to spend time with patients filling out living wills. Medicare doesn't reimburse for the time the hospital's nurses, chaplains and social workers do this. ...more	18 Nov 2009
New Technology Drives Therapies For Older Patients, Those With Alzheimer's Technology advances are making life better for the elderly and those with Alzheimer's disease by allowing the older to stay in their homes and giving the ill a way to interact with society again. Kaiser Health News, in collaboration with ...more	18 Nov 2009
Minister Brady Opens The Bealtaine Festival 2010 Network Day, Ireland Aine Brady, T.D., Minister for Older People and Health Promotion, yesterday (17 November 2009) officially opened the Bealtaine Festival 2010 Network Day organised by Age and Opportunity. The purpose of the event was to review and plan next years Festival, by giving organisers a chance to network and to learn from each other. The Bealtaine Festival is an Irish success story. ...more	18 Nov 2009
Healthy Older Adults Not At Risk From Exercise-Linked Ventricular Tachycardia Healthy, older adults free of heart disease need not fear that bouts of rapid, irregular heartbeats brought on by vigorous exercise might increase short- or long-term risk of dying or having a heart attack, according to a report by heart experts at Johns Hopkins and the U.S. National Institute on Aging (NIA). ...more	17 Nov 2009
Cell-Phone Use -- But Not Music -- Reduces Pedestrian Safety Two new studies of pedestrian safety found that using a cell phone while hoofing it can endanger one's health. Older pedestrians, in particular, are impaired when crossing a busy (simulated) street while speaking on a mobile phone, the researchers found. The studies, in which participants crossed a virtual street while talking on the phone or listening to music, found that the music-listeners were able to navigate traffic as well as the average unencumbered pedestrian. ...more	17 Nov 2009
KHN Column: Will There Be A Market For Gov't Long-Term Care Insurance? In his latest Kaiser Health News column, Howard Gleckman writes about long-term care: "The CLASS Act - the far-reaching proposal to create a national long-term care insurance program - is in the House health reform bill, and is still in the mix as Senate leaders struggle to design their own version of reform. ...more	17 Nov 2009
CMS Report: House Bill Will Raise Health Care Costs, Affect Seniors' Benefits A new report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finds that the health overhaul bill passed by the House will raise health costs by approximately $289 billion in the next ten years. The report was requested by House Republicans and compiled by CMS' chief actuary, Richard Foster. The ...more	17 Nov 2009
New Study Identifies Sources For Surgical Complications In Older Patients The elderly are more vulnerable to problems after a major surgical procedure than younger patients, but a team of investigators using data from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) suggest that one way to improve surgical results in this age group is to have hospitals expand their quality control guidelines to include more types of surgery-related complications. ...more	17 Nov 2009
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