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DDW: Constipation Drug Seen Safe and Effective for Long Term Use in Elderly
Los Angeles — The new medication Amitiza (lubiprostone) is safe and effective as long-term therapy for chronic constipation in older patients, researchers reported here. Results were at least as good in seniors as in the more general populations studied earlier.
May 23, 2006
Certain Exercise Proposed to Reduce Hip Fracture Risk in Elderly
CAMBRIDGE, England-If hip fractures in the elderly are caused by thinning of the femur that leads to bone buckling in a fall, as a team here contends, cycling, rowing or gymnastics might strengthen the femoral neck and reduce the fracture risk.
Jul 07, 2005