The speech language pathologists at Maine Veterans Homes have the proven ability to improve thinking, listening, and speaking skills and other cognitive abilities. They offer help with articulation problems, language disorders, apraxia, voice disorders and more.

Pain killers have been prescribed for years. No one really knew the danger that was ahead. A prominent pharmacist explains addiction to prescription medications and offers methods to finding pain relief without the use of opioids, which can actually make pain worse and effect other parts of the body.

People who have anemia have a decreased in the normal level of red blood cells in their bodies. These red blood cells are vital to one’s well-being since they bring oxygen to organs and tissues. Learn the symptoms of anemia and how to treat it with experts from the EMMC Patient Blood Management program.

The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare announced that seniors fared well in the omnibus budget bill. Programs that showed increased funding, or did not have a budget cut, include the State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP), LIHEAP, Meals on Wheels, and a whole host of others.

The 10th Annual Conference will have more than 40 individual workshops and meetings over two days in April. The workshops offer everything from learning to take care of yourself until help arrives to learning how to come back mentally and emotionally after a disaster. Maineprepares.com offers more information.

Dr. Clifford Singer, Acadia Hospital, continues the discussion on his numerous clinical trials and talks more about Alzheimer’s, including early diagnosis.

Clinical trials are being conducted at Acadia Hospital in Bangor that is part of a new global study of the safety and effectiveness of an investigational medication in people who have normal memory function, but who might experience memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease in the future. Dr. Clifford Singer is conducting these important trials.