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Guidelines for the treatment of older patients with respiratory conditions are routinely ignored. Research published in the open access journal BMC health Services Research shows that recommended treatments are given to only a small minority of eligible patients. Benjamin Craig from the Moffitt cancer Center, Tampa, USA, led a team who investigated the treatment of nearly 30,000 patients across the US.

Many agencies that provide home health and other services to elderly clients have begun to reduce their services as a result of increased gasoline prices, with the problem most prevalent among agencies in rural areas, the new york Times reports. According to a survey recently released by the

The bishops of North Carolina's two Roman Catholic dioceses on Wednesday announced an initiative to streamline the dioceses' policy advocacy efforts directed at the state legislature and to keep parishioners informed about issues that are important to the church, the AP/Charlotte Observer reports.

All but 18 of the 81 affected hospitals and nursing homes in new york state have met the June 30 deadline to close, merge or downsize in accordance with the recommendations made in 2006 by the

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