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Commonly used medications may produce cognitive impairment in older adults
Source: Indiana University (Release)
INDIANAPOLIS - Many drugs commonly prescribed to older adults for a variety of common medical conditions including allergies, hypertension, asthma, and cardiovascular disease appear to negatively affect the aging brain causing immediate but possibly reversible cognitive impairment, including delirium, in older adults according to a…
Resource type: News
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Advocacy by 13 N.C. Nonprofits Brings Statewide Benefits
Source: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP)
Washington, D.C. (5/07/2009) - For every dollar that foundations and other funding sources gave to support advocacy, organizing and civic engagement efforts by 13 nonprofit organizations in North Carolina, state residents received $89 in benefits. This is one of the findings in a new report…
Resource type: News
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Doctors Are Opting Out of Medicare
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By JULIE CONNELLY EARLY this year, Barbara Plumb, a freelance editor and writer in New York who is on Medicare, received a disturbing letter. Her gynecologist informed her that she was opting out of Medicare. When Ms. Plumb asked her primary-care doctor to…
Resource type: News
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$125 million donation for new UCSF hospital
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle
Original Source by Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer UCSF Medical Center has received a $125 million donation, among the largest in its history, to help build a planned $1.68 billion hospital to provide services to women, children and cancer patients near its Mission Bay biomedical complex,…
Resource type: News
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Understanding Obama's education vision
Source: MSNBC First Read
Original Source From NBC's Chuck Todd The White House beat is more than just what happens at the Oval Office. We're doing out best to cover every department and every utterance made by members of President Obama's Cabinet. To that end, here are the most…
Resource type: News
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Garamendi Launches a National Health Care Reform Campaign to Keep Presidential Candidates in Check
Source: California Chronicle
Original Source California Political Desk LOS ANGELES Bolstered by nurses, doctors, labor unions, small business owners and women's groups, Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi has unveiled a $40 million national health care reform campaign to hold health insurance companies accountable and provide quality, affordable health care…
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Reform of Health Care Has New Ally; National Coalition to Put $40 Million; Behind Advocacy
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By GUY BOULTON An array of unions and liberal activist groups in Wisconsin have joined a national coalition that plans to spend $40 million to push for health care reform, particularly universal coverage, in the coming election. The Health Care for America Now coalition, a…
Resource type: News
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Let’s Open the Door to Cuba and Its Promising Diabetes Treatments
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
[caption id="attachment_15121" align="alignnone" width="850"] Arley Concepcion Gonzalez, 14, being tested for arterial hypertension. William Soler Pediatric Teaching Hospital, Havana. Photo: Magnum Foundation[/caption] By Gail A. Reed The debates about what constitutes a real relationship with Cuba continue on the eve of President Obama’s trip Sunday.…
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'Giving while living' alters inheritances
Source: USA Today
AARP and the Foundation Center are Atlantic grantees. By Mindy Fetterman You used to have to wait for a loved one to die before you found out how much you were going to inherit — if you were going to inherit at all. No more.…
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The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Embrace of a Social Justice Approach to Grantmaking
The story behind The Atlantic Philanthropies’ embrace of social justice is recounted in this speech by Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, at the Ford Foundation Convening on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace in February 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. It is bracing…
Resource type: Speech
