Turning Caregiving from Burden to Opportunity ‰ÛÒ Free E-Book

I‰Ûªve created a free 55-page e-book entitled The Caregiver Sur-Thrival Guide. If you want to know how to turn caregiving from a burden to an opportunity, download this guide now. It’s not about surviving caregiving. It’s about thriving! As a reader of my blog, you have benefited from great information...

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Are You Being Over-Diagnosed?

(From JAMA) Cancer screenings can find treatable disease at an earlier stage but they can also detect cancers that will never progress to cause symptoms. Detection of these early, slow-growing cancers can lead to unnecessary surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. This begs the question: Are You Being Over-Diagnosed? A survey finds...

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Half Not Taking Medications Properly

The National Council on Patient Information and Education released a sobering report ‰ÛÏAccelerating Progress in Prescription Medicine Adherence: The Adherence Action Agenda that shows that half of the estimated 187 million Americans who take one or more prescription medicines‰ÛÓor up to 93.5 million patients‰ÛÓdo not take these drugs as prescribed....

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Pill for Alzheimer’s May Slow/Stop Disease

It worked in the lab. A British study shows that a pill for Alzheimer’s could treat the disease by halting the death of neurons. However it could be a decade or more before any medicine is developed. The Medical Research Council (MRC) team focused on abnormally shaped proteins that stick...

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More Evidence that a Flu Shot is Good for You

An increased dose of influenza vaccine stimulates a greater immune response than the standard dose in long-term care residents older than 65 years, according to a new study from Richard Zimmerman, MD, from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. According to MedScape, Fluzone, a high-dose influenza vaccine, was approved by...

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Surgical Complications From Falling

(From JAMA) Surgical complications from falling increase if you have fallen six months prior to surgery, no doubt a result of a weakened physical state. According to a JAMA article, a history of one or more falls in the six months before a surgery appears to be an indicator of...

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