Stretching may ease women’s depression and menopause symptoms

(This June 30th story was refiled to fix link at the bottom of the story) By Reyna Gobel (Reuters Health) – Stretching just 10 minutes a day might help ease menopause and depression symptoms in middle-aged women, a small study suggests. “Light-intensity exercises such as stretching have not been previously evaluated for its impact on menopausal and depressive symptoms,” lead researcher Yuko Kai told Reuters Health by email. Forty Japanese women, ages 40 to 61 years, participated in the study at the Physical Fitness Research Institute, Meiji Yasuda Life Foundation of Health and Welfare in Tokyo.
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Justice Department probes Alere over Medicare, Medicaid billing

(Reuters) – Diagnostic-testing company Alere Inc has received a U.S. Department of Justice subpoena seeking patient-billing records related to Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare, the company said on Wednesday. The subpoena, which was sent to Alere’s Toxicology unit on July 1, asked for billing records dating back to 2010 for patient samples tested at the company’s Texas pain management laboratory, Alere said in a statement. “So, the shares are actually recovering from getting crushed earlier in the day.” Alere said it was fully cooperating with the investigation and believed that matters related to the subpoena were not material.
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