Many Meds Taken by Seniors Can Raise Risk of Falls

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Many Meds Taken by Seniors Can Raise Risk of Falls.

After adjusting for the number of medications a person was taking, the researchers found men and women taking opioid painkillers as well as men taking antidepressants were more than twice as likely to have a fall injury as seniors who were not taking those drugs. Women taking antidepressants were 75% more likely to have a fall injury.

Centipedes, Caterpillars, and Other Creepy Crawlers | EBM Gone Wild

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Centipedes, Caterpillars, and Other Creepy Crawlers | EBM Gone Wild.

Governor declares emergency after drug overdoses – New Hampshire news – Boston.com.

The more I learn about Emergency Medicine the more I understand how much data EM physicians have to know about what can kill you so that they can save your life.  Saturday mornings are my time to catch up on medical news.  The overdose epidemic in NH was interesting but not completely surprising.  The bug information was surprising to me.

I’m not going to Peru.  Go to the website for a very good downloadable Slideshare presentation.  Great pictures too.

 

Regular Fish Consumption and Age-Related Brain Gray Matter Loss – American Journal of Preventive Medicine

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Regular Fish Consumption and Age-Related Brain Gray Matter Loss – American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Conclusions

Dietary consumption of baked or broiled fish is related to larger gray matter volumes independent of omega-3 fatty acid content. These findings suggest that a confluence of lifestyle factors influence brain health, adding to the growing body of evidence that prevention strategies for late-life brain health need to begin decades earlier.

Frozen fish sticks were a staple in my childhood diet.

I hope it helped.

VP International Life Insurance Underwriting

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Job Description – VP, International Life Insurance Underwriting INT0008S.

Update 08.09.14

I’ve gotten several page views on this post before finishing my thought process.  I totally forgot my posts here get published on LinkedIn too.  Pretty efficient if you ask me.  My plans are to post links to interesting jobs as I come across them.  I know a lot of page views on this website are from fellow underwriters looking for work.  So if you see a post with a job title description there will be a post and link to that position.  Again, I hope you find what you’re looking for.  Best of luck.