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Where Does The Patient’s Responsibility For Their Health Begin?
When you or I visit an accountant, a lawyer or car mechanic, we know what our role is and have a pretty clear understanding of what the ” expert” is supposed to do. But when it comes to a trip to the...
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Osteoporosis Treatment With Bisphosphonates: Is Exercise Good Or Dangerous?
My 86 year-old mother, who is generally in good health, slipped and fell recently and suffered a fractured femur. She was unfortunate to have suffered the accident, but had the good fortune to be...
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Social Network Keeps Seniors Connected
Care Innovations, a joint venture between GE and Intel, has released Connect, a service designed to address social isolation in seniors. Connect software runs on a touch screen device and features...
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Telehealth Services May Support Mass Exodus From Nursing Homes
Did you know that every nursing home resident in the U.S. must be asked every quarter whether she wants to go home, regardless of her health or mental status? And if she says yes, there is a local...
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Can Brain Games Make You Smarter?
Can we “train” our brains to be brighter, sharper, faster? A while back I wrote a post about a big study looking at “brain training”. The researchers wanted to know whether training programs that look...
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Why Pumping Iron Is Great For Brain Cells
In my last post I told you that I would reveal the one thing you can do to have a significant, positive and lasting effect on your brain health as you get older. See if you can spot it in the following...
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Medicare Advantage Physician Evaluator Jobs: Reality Versus Advertising At...
Physicians looking for part-time jobs to supplement their income may have run across advertisements for “lucrative” Medicare Advantage evaluation opportunities at CenseoHealth. Here’s a typical ad:...
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The Costs, And Maybe Cost Savings, Of Medication Non-Adherence
A Cat Playing Whack-A-Mole Medication non-adherence is a hot button topic in healthcare. Physicians lament patient “non-compliance” with their medical advice, and policy wonks tell us that more than...
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