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AILING. LADY BIRD JOHNSON, 89, after suffering a mild stroke; in Austin, Texas. Her doctor at Seton Medical Center said the former First Lady was alert and resting comfortably but having difficulty speaking...
Health professionals need to be more alert to older patients' substance abuse, cautions a new report in the Elder Law Journal. As many as 1 in 6 Americans age 60 or older is overly dependent on alcohol; one-third of these heavy drinkers are "late-onset abusers" who turn to drink after a major lifestyle change, such as the death of a spouse. Many doctors fail to consider substance abuse as a cause of symptoms. Others shrug off suspicions because they feel the patient "does not have much else to look forward...
...reached a stretch of open road and Stith became a little more liberal with her use of the accelerator, I came to look less like a passenger and more like a freakishly large papoose slung across her back. A nod was no longer needed to alert bikers and non-bikers alike that we were on a mission to find my manhood...
...issued an alert carefully hedged with disclaimers about the sources' credibility and lack of specifics. The alert level remained at yellow. Nonetheless, the warning, issued Friday, cast a pall over the stock market in afternoon trading and provoked complaints about vague alerts...
...give employers and grad schools more accurate feedback as to where students stood in Harvard classes, the ECP recommended giving two evaluations on each student’s transcript: a grade to reflect the (supposed) quality of his work, and the percentage of As given in the class to alert outsiders as to whether his transcript was comfortably padded...