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Older Adults Experience More Vision Difficulties at Home – Make Things Brighter
(From JAMA) Adults have better vision in clinics rather than at home, due to poor home lighting, according to a study by Anjali M. Bhorade, M.D., MSCI, of the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and colleagues. Clinicians often assume that vision measured in the clinic is equivalent to...
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Roger StaubachLook for Long Term Care Insurance Premiums to Rise
(From McKnight’s Long-Term Care News and Assisted Living) Leaders of Manulife Financial Corp., the parent company of John Hancock Life Insurance Co., stated they will seek to raise premiums on existing policies by an average of 25%. The announcement came during a third-quarter earnings call. Others are following suit to...
Mechanical Chest Press No Better Than Manual for CPR
From JAMA – Chicago ÛÒ Sten Rubertsson, M.D., Ph.D., of Uppsala University, Sweden and colleagues assessed whether cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in which mechanical chest compressions are delivered with a mechanical device would result in superior 4-hour survival in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest compared to CPR with manual chest compression....
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Obesity / Abnormal Heart Tied Together and so May Be Cure
(JAMA) ÛÏAtrial fibrillation , abnormal heartbeat, has been described as the epidemic of the new millennium, with a projection that by 2050 there will be 12 million to 15 million affected individuals in the United States. In the United States, the direct economic cost of atrial fibrillation is estimated at...
No Association Between Macular Degeneration, Alzheimer’s, Dementia
A study of patients in England with the eye disease age-related macular degeneration (AMD) found no association between having AMD and subsequently developing dementia or Alzheimer disease (AD), according to a report published by JAMA Ophthalmology, a JAMA Network publication. AMD and AD are diseases strongly associated with advancing age....
TEDx Zurich Show Opener
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Death Cafe Brings Life to the End of Life
OK I never heard of a Death Cafe until I read my local newspaper here in Charlotte. At a Death Cafe people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. In essence by talking about death, the Death Cafe brings a new life to the end of...