Health

Senior concern and opnion about the current health care system

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  Senior Health Headlines - Obama signs historic $938 billion health overhaul (AP) - 23 Mar 2010 AP - A broadly smiling President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a historic $938 billion health care overhaul that guarantees coverage for 32 million uninsured Americans and will touch nearly every citizen's life, presiding over the biggest shift… 0 Comments Feb 20, 2010, 7:38 am
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  Living Life with Essential Thrombocythemia-An Incurable Disease - Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) is a disease where there are too many blood platelets in the blood. It was just luck that my ET was discovered when it was. Otherwise, I would probably have had a heart attack or stroke.  1 Comments Jan 17, 2010, 1:54 pm
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  Seniors and Brain Cells - “A Swedish-American team led by the Salk Institute’s Fred Gage recently found that adult human brains can and do grow new neurons thought life. This fits well with another recent study of U.C Berkleys professors which showed that cognitive abilities that usually decline with age – planning, organizing, and manipulating… 0 Comments Jan 11, 2010, 11:19 am