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Medicare Won't Pay for Medical Errors
(Source: NY Times) - If your auto mechanic accidentally breaks your windshield while trying to repair the engine, he would never get away with billing you for fixing his mistake. Medicare will soon apply that logic to American medicine when it stops paying hospitals for added costs of treating patients injured in their care.
Yoga Classes for Alzheimer's Patients
(Source: Boston Globe) - "We are going to play a fun little game, and it requires concentration," Patrice Flesch told her yoga students. Holding up her hands, she quickly extended and retracted her fingers. Her students repeated the motion.
A Plan to Cope with Lewy Body Dementia
(Source: Mayo Clinic) - Lewy body dementia is a progressive brain disease and the second leading cause of degenerative dementia in the elderly. Dementia with Lewy bodies accounts for up to 20 percent of all dementia cases, or 800,000 patients in the United States.
Active Social Life May Reduce Men's Alzheimer's Risk
(Source: HealthDay News) - Results of a U.S. study indicate that cognitive and social activity in mid-life may significantly reduce men's risk of dementia.
Phase III Trial of Investigational Alzheimer's Compound
(Source: Eli Lilly) - Eli Lilly announced that it will begin enrolling patients in a second Phase III study of LY450139, a gamma-secretase inhibitor being investigated as a potential treatment to delay the progression of mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease. The study (IDENTITY 2) is expected to enroll 1,100 patients from 22 countries.
Volunteers Being Enrolled for National Alzheimer's Study
(Source: Georgetown University) - Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center are enrolling volunteers for a clinical trial of an investigational medication aimed at blocking inflammation and damage to nerve cells in the brain that can lead to progressive memory loss and behavioral changes in people with Alzheimer's disease.
A New Dementia Mouse Model
(Source: University of Sidney ) - Sydney researchers have made a breakthrough that will lead to a greater understanding of the causes of and treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.
Pratchett Warns of Alzheimer's Toll
(Source: Press Association) - Best selling novelist Terry Pratchett won a standing ovation at a conference in the UK when he made a moving plea for more to be done to combat the rising toll from Alzheimer's disease.
Helping Dementia Victims Overcome Fears of Bathing
(Source: Daily Breeze) - It is hard to imagine being afraid of washing up, but for many people with Alzheimer's, each bath or shower they take is like their first time - full of fears, anxiety and unknowns.
Tips to Reduce the Risk of Alzheimer's
(Source: Georgetown University) - "Many people believe there is nothing we can do to prevent Alzheimer's, but that's not true," said Dr. R. Scott Turner, an Alzheimer's expert and director of the Memory Disorders Program at Georgetown University Medical Center. "There are some very important things we can do over the course of a lifetime to reduce the risk of developing the disease, and actions we can take to protect our older loved ones."
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