Calcium supplements linked to heart attacks: study (AFP)

Ordinary calcium supplements taken by the elderly to strengthen bones may boost the risk of heart attacks, according to a study released Friday. The findings, published in the British Medical Journal, suggest that the role of calcium in the treatment of osteoporosis should be reconsidered, the researchers said.(BMJ)AFP - Ordinary calcium supplements taken by the elderly to strengthen bones may boost the risk of heart attacks, according to a study released Friday.
Sleep Disorder May Help Predict Parkinson's Decades Earlier (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 28 (HealthDay News) -- A certain type of sleep disorder may be an early warning of Parkinson's disease and other neurological disorders, new research confirms.
Delirious Hospital Patients a High-Risk Group, Study Finds (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 27 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly hospital patients with delirium are at increased risk for dementia, institutionalization and death, a new study has found.
Link Between Depression, Cholesterol May Differ by Gender (HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- Gender-specific regulation of cholesterol levels may help prevent depression in the elderly, suggests a new study.
FDA approves larger dose of Pfizer's Aricept (AP)
AP - Drugmakers Eisai Inc. and Pfizer Inc. said on Saturday that government regulators have given them permission to make a larger dose of its Alzheimer's disease drug Aricept for patients who have already been taking the smaller dose.
Eisai say FDA approves higher dose Aricept (Reuters)
Reuters - Eisai Co and Pfizer Inc said they won U.S. regulatory approval for a higher dose once-daily version of Aricept, a drug that treats Alzheimer disease.
Depression May Increase Chances of Getting Alzheimer's (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - As if depression wasn't bad enough on its own, new research suggests older adults with depressive symptoms are at increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
'Get Moving' Can Be Vital Advice for Seniors (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 20 (HealthDay News) -- A birthday card on the market for older adults, meant to be humorous, shows a vulture on a tree branch, with the admonition to "Keep moving."
Medicare drug benefit boosts use of heart failure meds (Reuters)
Reuters - The Medicare drug benefit may be helping more older Americans with heart failure get the medications recommended for controlling the disease, a new study finds.
U.S. Health Reform Starts to Take Hold (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, July 16 (HealthDay News) -- Seniors whose drug costs push them into Medicare's "donut hole" and parents whose children are uninsurable due to pre-existing health conditions are among the first Americans to see tangible effects of the nation's historic health reform law.
94 charged in Medicare scams totaling $251M (AP)

Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, left, speaks to the media as Loretta Lynch, center, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and other law enforcement officials announce charges against doctors, health care company owners, executives and others in a case of alleged false medicare billing at a news conference in the U.S. Attorney's office in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Friday, July 16, 2010. The poster at right which says in Russian 'Do Not Gossip' was, allegedly, in the back room of a doctor's office where patients were being bribed for their cooperation in the scheme. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea)AP - Elderly Russian immigrants lined up to take kickbacks from the backroom of a Brooklyn clinic. Claims flooded in from Miami for HIV treatments that never occurred. One professional patient was named in nearly 4,000 false Medicare claims.
Doctors, nurses joined Medicare scam, U.S. says (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. authorities charged 94 doctors, nurses and clinic owners with scheming to defraud the taxpayer-funded Medicare program out of $251 million, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday.
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