Insurance claims for medical services related to opioid dependence rose more than 3,000 percent between 2007 and 2014, a study finds, suggesting that opioid problems have gone mainstream.
Source: Claims For Medical Help With Opioid Abuse Jump Sharply : Shots – Health News : NPR
ICYMI
Animal activists had teamed up to save a 15-pound lobster, at least 60 years old, from being dinner. They shipped him to a Maine aquarium — but the story doesn’t have a happy ending.
Source: Larry The Lobster, Saved From Stockpot, Dies In Styrofoam Instead : The Two-Way : NPR
Experts and women who’ve been there share everything you need to know to live under the same roof (again)
Source: Moving Back in With Your Parents Guide – Motto
At first, I thought this was an article from The Onion.
Sadly, it is not.
Rather than link each individual article separately I’ve provided a link to the table of contents for this collection on geriatric emergencies.
What underwriter wouldn’t get excited about Evaluation of Syncope in Older Adults. This is exciting stuff!
Only smoking is bigger risk factor in middle-age men
Source: Low Aerobic Activity Tied to Higher Death Rates in Men | Medpage Today
Get up. Get out. Move it.
Conclusions – There are clinically important differences in risk of cardiovascular disease, heart failure, and all cause mortality between different diabetes drugs alone and in combination. Overall, use of gliptins or glitazones was associated with decreased risks of heart failure, cardiovascular disease, and all cause mortality compared with non-use of these drugs. These results, which do not account for levels of adherence or dosage information and which are subject to confounding by indication, might have implications for prescribing of diabetes drugs.
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