Beatles ’Help!’ Ease Depression in Dementia. -- Listening to familiar Beatles tunes helped to relieve depression, anxiety, and other psychological health problems among patients with moderate to severe dementia, researchers found. Music therapy can't hurt.

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FDA OKs Brain Function Test for ADHD. The FDA has cleared the first test of brain function to help nail down the diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and teens suspected of having the disorder.

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Inflammation Tied to Fracture

Inflammation Tied to Fracture. Elderly men with elevated levels of low-grade inflammation measured by high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) are more likely to break bones, particularly vertebrae, a Swedish population-based study showed.

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Exercise Pumps Up Memory in Alzhimer’s

Exercise Pumps Up Memory in Alzhimer’s -- Physical activities may help to protect against the deleterious influence of age on memory in people at high risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease, researchers reported here.

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TV Habits of Parents and their effect on children

Parents’ TV Habits Rub Off on Kids. How much time parents spend watching television is the single biggest determinant of how much their kids watch, a survey showed. Really??? No kidding.

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Enzyme May ID Nerve Injury in Diabetes

Enzyme May ID Nerve Injury in Diabetes. An enzyme associated with neural injury increased significantly in patients with diabetes and with diabetic neuropathy, suggesting potential as a biomarker for peripheral neuropathy in such patients.

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EHR's -- How effective in first 18 months

EHRs Have Mixed Effect on Health Costs. Using electronic health records saved a little more than 3% in ambulatory health costs 18 months after adoption but didn’t reduce overall inpatient costs, a large comparative study of EHR use found.

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Alzheimer's Cure Possible? -- How close?

Alzheimer’s Meeting to Focus on Progress in BOSTON -- Although no cure for Alzheimer’s disease is yet apparent, researchers gathering here for a week-long meeting will see ample evidence that one -- or more -- may be just over the horizon.

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Menopause effecting Cognitive Functioning

Study Confirms Cognitive Loss with Menopause. Certain aspects of cognitive function related to memory declined significantly in women during the transition from pre- to postmenopausal status, a comprehensive neuropsychiatric assessment showed:(((((

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Apples, Arsenic, and the FDA

FDA Sets Standard for Arsenic in Apple Juice. The FDA proposed on Friday an "action level" for arsenic in apple juice, with the goal of preventing exposure to unsafe levels of the inorganic form of the element. ...Don't rush or anything....really!!

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FDA penalize for delay or denial of inspectors

FDA Flexes New Muscle on Drug Supply chain- The FDA on Friday issued a draft guidance implementing penalties for manufacturers who delay inspections or deny access to inspectors, the agency announced at a day-long public meeting here on drug supply chains.

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Older Adults Mentally Sharper

Are Older Adults Getting Sharper Mentally? Men and women who reached their mid-90s in 2010 were mentally sharper than those who hit that mark a decade earlier, according to a Danish cohort study.

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Smart Phone Tracking Blood Sugar

Smart Phone Can Track Blood Sugar. The first wearable artificial pancreas platform based on a smart phone has passed early feasibility tests in real-world settings, researchers reported.

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Head Trauma and increase of Stroke

Stroke Risk Increased After Head Trauma. The risk of ischemic stroke increased modestly but significantly following traumatic brain injury, according to a review of more than 400,000 cases.

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Aerobic Excercise -- SIMPLE!

Aerobic Exercise Burns Fat All on Its own.-- In obese teenage girls, both aerobic exercise and resistance training were effective at reducing total fat -- even if the girls didn’t cut calories or lose weight, researchers reported.

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"Reverse Vaccine" for Diabetes

Vaccine Turns Off Autoimmunity in Type 1 Diabetes A "reverse vaccine" that shuts down the destructive immune response against insulin-producing beta cells helped preserve pancreatic function in patients with type 1 diabetes, researchers reported.

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Same Sex Marriage and Medical Benefits

ACA Coverage Affected by DOMA Ruling WASHINGTON -- Legally married same-sex couples will now be considered a family in calculating federal medical benefits after Wednesday’s landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down part of the Defense of Marriage Act.

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Cortisol Link Stress to Cardiac Risks

Cortisol Levels Link Stress to Cardiac Risk. An elevated cortisol response to mental stress was linked to higher cardiac troponin T levels, suggesting that cortisol over-reactivity might explain why some people are more likely to develop heart disease, according to U.K. investigators.

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Obesity -- Our Children

Heavy in Kindergarten, Obese by Grade 8 -- Kids who were overweight in kindergarten were more than five times as likely to be obese by the time they entered eighth grade as kindergarteners of normal weight, new data show.

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Antidepressant for Menopause

Antidepressant Gets FDA OK for Hot Flashes June 28, 2013 The FDA has approved paroxetine (Brisdelle), a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, to treat moderate to severe hot flashes associated with menopause.

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Remicade Biosimilars

European Agency Favors Remicade Biosimilars Patients in some European countries with autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease may soon have a cheaper treatment option, following today’s statement from the European Medicines Agency recommending approval of two monoclonal antibody biosimilars to infliximab (Remicade).

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Obamacare = Disaster

A Wall Street Journal study finds that consumers could see insurance rates double or even triple when they look for individual coverage under ObamaCare. ObamaCare is a disaster and should be repealed.

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Stroke Patient ER Care

EMS Triage to Stroke Centers Doubles tPA Use. A city-wide program to get stroke patients routed to primary stroke centers by paramedics had a "significant, immediate, sustainable impact" on raising use of clot-busting drugs, a study showed.

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Rx Painkillers: Deaths Women vs. Men

Rx Painkiller Deaths Rising Faster in Women The ongoing "epidemic" of addiction to prescription opioid painkillers appears to be spreading faster among women than men, according to government researchers.

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Breast Cancer and Fish

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Breast Cancer: Eating just one to two portions a week of salmon, sardines, mackerel, or other fish rich in marine n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids is associated with a 14% reduced risk of breast cancer in later life, according to results of a meta-analysis of data from 21 prospective cohort studies involving nearly 900,000 people.

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