Seniors/Aging News Headlines

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 1 million Americans wind up back in the hospital only weeks after they left for reasons that could have been prevented — a revolving door that for years has seemed impossible to slow.

Cold weather and seasonal flu go hand in hand, and while we have the groundhog to provide insight into the length of winter, no one can say for certain when the 2012-13 influenza season will taper off. In its most recent Flu View report, representing data obtained from Jan. 27 through Feb. 2, the U.S. Centers for Disease …

NEW YORK (AP) — The worst of the flu season appears to be over.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Seniors taking psychiatric drugs may be at extra high risk for falling, new Dutch research suggests. Of about 400 elderly people in the study, those who took medications including antidepressants and antipsychotics were twice as likely to report having fallen three or more times in the previous …

NUEVA YORK (Reuters Health) - Un nuevo estudio reveló que lamedición frecuente del azúcar en sangre está asociado con unmejor control de la diabetes, por lo que sus autoresrecomendaron que los seguros de salud públicos y privados nolimiten la disponibilidad de cintas o tiras reactivas. Las personas con diabetes tipo 1, …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday renominated one of his top healthcare advisers to lead the federal agency responsible for overseeing Medicare, Medicaid and the implementation of his 2010 healthcare reform law. If confirmed by the Senate, Marilyn Tavenner would become the first official head of …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator Jeff Sessions on Thursday warned that President Barack Obama's nominee for Treasury secretary could face a tough time winning confirmation if the White House did not clear up a dispute over the Medicare health program. Jack Lew, Obama's former chief of staff and budget director, …

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Frequent blood sugar testing was strongly associated with better diabetes control in a large new study that concludes public and private insurers should not be limiting test strip supplies. Particularly for people with type 1 diabetes, who must test their own blood sugar throughout each day and …

NUEVA YORK (Reuters Health) - Un estudio sobre losbeneficiarios de la cobertura federal estadounidense Medicarerevela que en el país norteamericano están muriendo menosadultos mayores en los hospitales de atención aguda que hace unadécada. Pero entre el 2000 y el 2009 se registró un aumento de laproporción de pacientes …

Washington, 7 feb (EFE).- El senador demócrata estadounidense Bob Menéndez negó hoy informaciones de prensa según las cuales él intercedió a favor de un amigo y donante político que ahora está siendo investigado por el FBI por fraude.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Thousands of Navajo tribal members in the Southwest face a public health emergency, having struggled without drinking water for weeks after a long cold snap shattered pipes across the largest U.S. Indian reservation, Navajo officials said on Wednesday. The Navajo Nation, about the size of West Virginia, …

Drug-Free Technique Might Help Some Patients Who Struggle With Depression

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite concerns that faulty brain proteins could be transferred from person to person by treatments involving human fluids and tissues, a new study finds no signs of increased risk for two major degenerative brain diseases among recipients. "I think it's reassuring to people who had transplants, …

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Diets lean on meat and rich in healthy fats like olive oil were most effective at promoting weight loss and lowering blood sugar among people with diabetes in a review of evidence from the last 10 years. Benefits were also seen with diets low in carbohydrates, high in protein or low in simple …

LONDON (Reuters) - Actress Mariel Hemingway hopes going public in a documentary about the curse that has plagued her family will finally dispel any mystery around their battles with addiction and raise awareness about mental illness. For years, Hemingway ignored the drinking, addiction and mental illness that coursed through …

A California study has concluded that women between the ages of 66 and 74 only need mammograms every two years. The researchers call the results comparable to having the test annually.

LONDON (Reuters) - The deaths of hundreds of hospital patients, left without food or water in filthy conditions, exposed an urgent need to change the culture of Britain's National Health Service (NHS), a report said on Wednesday. Between 400 and 1,200 patients are estimated to have died needlessly at Stafford Hospital in …

LONDON (Reuters) - The deaths of hundreds of hospital patients, left without food or water in filthy conditions, exposed an urgent need to change the culture of National Health Service (NHS), a report said on Wednesday. Between 400 and 1,200 patients are estimated to have died needlessly at Stafford Hospital in central …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Spending on Social Security and healthcare will double to $3.2 trillion a year over the next decade, threatening a sharp rise in national debt unless Congress acts to avoid the danger, congressional researchers warned on Tuesday. A report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office did not put …

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fewer elderly Americans are dying in acute care hospitals than were a decade ago, according to a new study of where Medicare beneficiaries spend their final months of life. However, between 2000 and 2009 there was also an increase in the proportion of people admitted to the intensive care unit …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Monday denied a nursing home operator's emergency stay application that had cited legal confusion over President Barack Obama's appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. Ginsburg denied the request filed earlier Monday by HealthBridge Management …

(Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday proposed eliminating certain obsolete Medicare regulations, a move it said would save hospitals and other healthcare providers an estimated $676 million a year, or $3.4 billion over five years. The Department of Health and Human Services described the targeted regulations as …

Between keeping track of the score, the clock, the down and yardage, the Super Bowl involves a lot of number-watching, but what viewers tend not to count during the wing-munching, chip-chomping free-for-all are calories. And with ads full of taco-loving senior citizens and a violent...