As people age, they lose some ability to detect and interpret signals coming through the central nervous system to the brain. The study ''Symptom Recognition in Elders with Heart Failure'' divided 29 people who had been diagnosed with chronic heart failure for at least six months into two groups: those who were younger than 73 year, and ...

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine have found that increasing levels of a protein called GGA3 prevented the accumulation of BACE1, an enzyme linked to Alzheimer's disease. BACE1 produces a toxin that researchers have pinpointed as a cause of Alzheimer's.Giuseppina Tesco, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the department of ...

The American Medical Directors Association (AMDA) Foundation, the non-profit research and education arm of AMDA, invites you to meet two dogs that have a key role in caring for long term care facility residents. Come meet Sophie and Tessa and hear from their owner, a facility medical director, and other physicians about the power of pets in their ...

If your residents are not complying with their metformin medication schedule, it could be the smell, which has been described as similar to dead fish. Many diabetics report nausea when taking the commonly prescribed drug, but doctors have not associated it with the odor. Read more here.

 The recruitment period of the Phase 2 Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes Campaign ended at midnight January 31, 2010. The Campaign signed up. 5,860 nursing homes, including 1,132 new participants and 4,728 re-enrollees (now charter members of the Campaign), are now members of the Phase 2 Campaign, reports Carol Benner, ScM. ...

  In a report on medical complicity in human rights violations, Human Rights Watch includes lack of pain relief as an example of torture. ''Our report found that fewer than 4 percent of the roughly 1 million terminal cancer patients in India who suffer severe pain every year were able to receive adequate treatment. Even though the majority ...