New study adds to link between cholesterol and Alzheimer's disease
A person’s cholesterol level may be a predictor of amyloid plaque build-up in the brain, a new study finds.
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Diagnosing a heart attack just before it happens could be as simple as a blood test
Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in California believe they have developed a simple blood test that could prove effective in predicting heart attacks.
Starting a business instead of retiring
Older entrepreneurs may have the advantage over their younger counterparts due to experience and potentially greater financial resources. In 2012, Kauffman Ewing Institute found that those businesses that survived startup were more likely to have primary owners older than 45.
Social Security changes for 2014
Social Security beneficiaries will receive a 1.5 percent COLA increase for 2014 beginning with the December 2013 benefits which are payable in January. In 1973, Congress legislated cost of living increases to help benefits keep pace with inflation. COLAs are based on increases in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and clerical…
Could Google provide the answers for medical questions?
Need your glucose levels to be monitored? It might be as simple as placing a contact in your eye or wearing a pair of glasses. At least that’s what the techies are betting. Bloomberg reported that at least four Google employees met with regulators from the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). Some of the employees supposed…
Study links shingles in young adults with higher incidence of stroke
Remember having chickenpox? If you’re like most people you had splotchy, itchy skin for a couple weeks as a child unless you were vaccinated and then the disease was gone. While chickenpox can cause problems for people with autoimmune disorders, pregnant women, newborns, teens or adults, it’s usually not a problem for children.
Nursing home admissions form does not violate federal law
Katie White was admitted to Charles Morris Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Pennsylvania on March 11, 2009. As part of her admittance, her son, Solomon White acting as her POA signed the admission agreement as a responsible party. This obligated him to apply his mother’s income and assets to her care and held him…
Just in time for the holidays: report ties BMI to health care costs
A report from Duke Medicine found that health care costs correspond to an individual’s body mass index (BMI). As their BMI increases so too does their health costs. The study published in the journal Obesity, reported that researchers found that medical and drug claims rose gradually with each unit increase in BMI, beginning at…
Most Medicare patients have good access to doctors
Media reports often claim that Medicare patients are unable to find physicians willing to take Medicare and for a variety of reasons are forced to go without medical care. These are troubling concerns as having good access to quality care means being able to find a doctor to see and then being able to…
Study finds that not all AL facilities are created equal
One alternative to nursing home living is an assisted living facility. These come in all sizes. That statement might seem to be a comment worthy of a “duh” response but the reason that the size of a facility has any bearing is that a new study found that the size of a community determined…