By Pauline Go

If you want to stay healthy and fit, follow our daily health guide.
1) You should exercise daily. It does not matter what you do. You can walk, run, swim, or jump. It is advisable to exercise for a minimum of twenty minutes a day. Daily exercise will keep you healthy, and it [...]

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Traumatic brain injury
may lead to an increased risk of developing symptoms like those of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other disorders, a panel of experts said on Thursday.
A committee of the Institute of Medicine, which provides advice to U.S. policymakers, reviewed studies on the consequences of the kind of brain injuries that thousands of U.S. [...]

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There’s no mammogram or Pap smear for Alzheimer’s disease. Yet an Alzheimer’s group this week begins a push for simple memory screenings in a bid to catch possible warning signs of dementia sooner.
Memory screenings — five-minute mini-tests, doable at a health fair — are hugely controversial. But the provocative new report from the Alzheimer’s Foundation [...]

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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Heart pumps can buy time for people with failing hearts in need of a transplant but implanting heart-assist devices in the elderly as a substitute for a heart transplant benefits only some — and at a high financial cost, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
They said about half of people 65 and older [...]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Diabetic supply maker Bayer Healthcare, a unit of Bayer AG, has agreed to pay $97.5 million to settle allegations that it paid kickbacks to several diabetic suppliers and caused them to submit false Medicare claims, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
Bayer agreed to enter into a corporate integrity agreement - [...]

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TUESDAY, Nov. 25 (HealthDay News) — How well a person on Medicare understands the program’s benefits affects their access to health care, a new study says.
The report, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, found that a third of the surveyed Medicare beneficiaries from across the United States considered [...]

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