“Medicare: High-Expenditure Part B Drugs,” (GAO-13-46R, October 2012, .pdf format, 31p.).
November 13, 2012
CAAR – US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General Report – November 13, 2012
“Inappropriate Payments to Skilled Nursing Facilities Cost Medicare More Than a Billion Dollars in 2009,” (OEI-02-09-00200, November 2012, .pdf format, 29p.).
CAAR – Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Report – November 13, 2012
“Looking to 2060: Long-term growth prospects for the world,” by Asa Johansson, Yvan Guillemette, Fabrice Murtin, David Turner, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Christine de la Maisonneuve, Philip Bagnoli, Guillaume Bousquet, and Francesca Spinelli (Policy Paper No. 3, November 2012, .pdf format, 31p.).
www.oecd.org/economy/economicoutlookanalysisandforecasts/lookingto2060.htm
CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Articles – November 13, 2012
A. “Automatic Classification of Early Parkinson’s Disease with Multi-Modal MR Imaging,” by Dan Long, Jinwei Wang, Min Xuan, Quanquan Gu, Xiaojun Xu, Dexing Kong, and Minming Zhang (PLOS ONE 7(11): e47714. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047714, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 9p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0047714
B. “Differential Sialylation of Serpin A1 in the Early Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease Dementia,” by Sarah Jesse, Stefan Lehnert, Olaf Jahn, Lucilla Parnetti, Hilkka Soininen, Sanna-Kaisa Herukka, Petra Steinacker, Saskia Tawfik, Hayrettin Tumani, Christine A. F. von Arnim, Manuela Neumann, Hans A. Kretzschmar, Hasan Kulaksiz, Martin Lenter, Jens Wiltfang, Boris Ferger, Bastian Hengerer, and Markus Otto (PLoS ONE 7(11): e48783. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048783, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 10p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0048783
CAAR – Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Working Paper – November 13, 2012
“Regional hot spots of exceptional longevity in Germany,” by Rembrandt D. Scholz and Sebastian Klusener (WP2012-028, November 2012, .pdf format, 25p.). Note: Links to the abstract and full-text can be found at:
CAAR – Health and Retirement Study Call for Questionnaire Modules – November 13, 2012
The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research Health and Retirement Study has announced a request for “New Experimental Modules for HRS 2014.” For more information about submitting proposed modules go to:
hrsonline.isr.umich.edu/news/index.php?p=shownews3x1&hfyle=news333
CAAR – Journal Tables of Contents – November 13, 2012
American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias (Vol. 27, No. 8, December 2012).
aja.sagepub.com/content/27/8.toc
Dementia (Vol. 11, No. 6, November 2012).