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• Cancer
• Predictors of cancer mortality (breast, prostate, other). Another reason to check your CRP
Annual Prostate Cancer screening does NOT decrease early mortality - from the NCI (3/09)
• Cardiovascular Health
• Statins with Elevated "high sensitivity" CRP - dramatic impact to decrease cardiac mortality and stroke. Click Here to read NIH statement. Click Here to read NEJM original article (11/2008)
• the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed a new publication,  "Your Guide to Physical Activity and Your Heart". This publication presents comprehensive and easy-to-understand information on the impact of physical activity on your heart, as well as the power of physical activity to keep you healthy overall. This publication is one of a series from NHLBI.
• Heart Attack Risks and NSAIDS - a new report from AHRQ (September 2006)
• AED (Automatic External Defibrillator) does NOT decrease sudden cardiac arrest mortality in individuals with anterior wall infarcts. (NEJM 4/1/2008)
• Update - AED in home use does NOT decrease sudden cardiac death.
Rosuvastin (Crestor) decreases risk of VTE in healthy individuals without risk factors for VTE. (From the NEJM 3-29-09)
Modifiable lifestyle factors decrease risk of heart failure mortality in men and hypertension in women. (from JAMA 7/22/09)
• Mental Health
• American College of Physicians Guidelines on Use of Second Generation Anti-Depressants in Adults (11/08)
• Medication Alert - First-Generation Antipsychotics Associated with Increased Mortality Risk in Seniors. Elderly patients had a 32 percent greater risk of death within the first 6 months of treatment compared with those prescribed a newer antipsychotic (known as atypical antipsychotics) or second-generation antipsychotics.  Haloperidol carried the highest risk of all of the drugs. (CMAJ, 2007 Feb 27;176(5):627-32.) 
• Alzheimer's Disease - comprehensive information from the National Institute of Aging (11/08) 
• Nutrition - Endocrine - Diabetes
• Dietary Supplements - annual bibliographies of significant research on dietary supplements (1999-2006) from the NIH.
• Calculate your risk for Type II Diabetes. Read BMJ article, or use calculator
• High or low BMI increases mortality risk. Calculate your BMI now!
• Other Health Topics
• Evaluate Assisted Living Facilities, and other long-term care facilities, e.g. nursing homes and residential settings using newly published AHRQ tools.
• Evaluating Nursing Homes - from Consumers Union
• The State of Aging and Health in America 2007 report released by the CDC  presents national data available on 15 key health indicators for older adults related to health status, health behaviors, preventive care and screening, and injuries. Look up your own state on an innovative interactive chart, or compare with 2004 data.
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use by Adults (September 2006)
• “Partner violence can occur at any age” reports Amy Bonomi Ph.D. in the February 2007 issue of The Gerontologist on a study ("Intimate Partner Violence in Older Women") of 370 elderly women. CLICK HERE for more information.