MONDAY, Jan. 5 (HealthDay News) -- More and more people with diabetes are living to older ages, thanks to medical advances. But the long-term facilities, such as nursing homes, that care for aging Americans may not be ready for the additional ...
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The current unstable economy has dealt harsh financial blows to many. The following is offered as guidance to those faced with reduced benefits or joblessness. Stress The threat of losing your job can be just as stressful as actually being laid off ...
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An oxygen machine wheezes and whirs behind Dorothy Milburn while she breathes through a 50-foot-long tube that is both her lifeline and a nuisance when it tangles under her walker. Milburn's home-care worker, Lee Meyers, keeps an eye on the 84-year ...
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TUESDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Due to slower spending on prescription drugs, health-care spending in the United States grew at the lowest rate in a decade in 2007, a new federal report found. Yet despite the slowdown, most health-care costs ...
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FREMONT — Sisters Helen Hansen and Mary Bertha Rehers have lived less than a mile from each other for years, but they never really crossed paths until they each needed extra medical attention. In Fremont there are two convents, but only one place ...
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Amid President-elect Barack Obama's promises to expand health care, years of rising medical costs, heightened by the recession, are stinging Rochester. Area hospitals, employers, insurance companies and patients are all feeling the pain. The ...
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State Lt. Governor John Garamendi is proposing an ambitious fast-track medical school at University of California-Merced in an effort to create more doctors for the San Joaquin Valley, one of the most physician-poor regions in the state. In a ...
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