| ACP: Primary Care Shortage Faced As Population Ages
| Innovative solutions such as medical homes may help improve care
| | The United States faces a looming shortage of primary care physicians to meet the health care needs of the aging population, according to a panel discussion May 16 at the American College of Physicians' Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington, D.C. |
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| CDC Recommends Shingles Vaccine for Elderly
| Vaccine recommended even for people who have already had shingles
| | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that people over 60 years old receive a single dose of the shingles, or herpes zoster, vaccine, even if they have already had shingles. |
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| Chemotherapy Doesn't Benefit Mesothelioma Patients
| Does not improve survival or quality of life over active symptom control
| | For patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma, which is nearly always fatal and for which few treatment options exist, the addition of chemotherapy to active symptom control does not improve survival or quality of life, according to study findings published in the May 17 issue of The Lancet. |
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