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New Survey Reveals Mums Blame Back Pain On Children And Buggies
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Geriatrician Available To Discuss New Research On Falls In Older Adults
Each year in this country, one of every three people over age 65 suffers a fall, resulting in nearly 16,000 deaths. The federal government estimates that 1.8 million older adults who fall are treated each year in hospital emergency rooms for nonfatal injuries - including bruises, fractures and head trauma - and that 433,000 of those individuals need to be hospitalized because of their injuries. Research published this month in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society has found that a significant number of those falls - an average of 129 per day - involve the use of walkers and canes, the very devices on which millions rely to help them avoid the dangers posed by falling.
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Editorials React To Trustees' Report On Medicare Insolvency
Several newspapers on Thursday published editorials responding to a Medicare trustees report issued Tuesday that said the trust fund Medicare uses to pay for beneficiaries" hospital care will be insolvent by 2017, two years earlier than predicted by trustees last year. Summaries of the editorials appear below.
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Military Doctor Pay Award Likely To Worsen Recruitment And Retention Crisis, Says British Medical Association

The Armed Forces Pay Review Body has announced that military doctors and dentists will receive a 1.5% pay rise this year, significantly lower than the 2.8% awarded to other armed forces personnel. There are serious manpower problems in the Defence Medical Services. The BMA is concerned that the announcement will have an adverse effect on the recruitment and retention of armed forces doctors. Dr Brendan McKeating, Chair of the BMA"s Armed Forces Committee said: "Armed forces doctors will be disappointed by this announcement. Military doctors typically earn less than their NHS counterparts. The BMA has been calling for doctors to be rewarded for their military service rather than penalised. The pay award does nothing to address this injustice. "Under manning is a serious problem in specialties that are critical to defence medicine. The Ministry of Defence"s own figures show that we need to double the number of psychiatrists and anaesthetists. There are also huge shortfalls in the number of doctors needed in emergency medicine and general surgery. These specialties are essential to the treatment of military personnel and this problem must be taken seriously. "The pay award is significantly lower than that received by other military personnel. Rather than encourage recruitment and retention it is likely to make it worse. "Our capacity to provide high quality care to our armed forces is under threat if the MOD does not take the retention of armed forces doctors seriously. We must ensure people who risk their lives for our country have access to high quality healthcare." British Medical Association


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