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 CMS to redo nursing home validation reports due to MDS 3.0 system glitch
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will have to reprocess validation reports for an estimated more than 100,000 records from nursing homes as a result of a glitch in the new MDS 3.0 system, Sheila Lambowitz, director of the Division of Institutional Post Acute Care at CMS, told McKnight's Monday.
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 Pharmacists seek clarity for long-term care in new drug disposal law
A new law establishing prescription drug take-back programs has left many long-term care facilities in the dark about the disposal of controlled medications, one pharmacist group says.
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Do People Have Real Friends Anymore?
Friends may have been off the air for six years, but Americans still love watching TV shows about, well, friends. In a column for the Los Angeles Times, Neal Gabler points out that one of the things the country's most popular (scripted) shows have in common is their frequent depictions of "folks wandering into the unlocked apartments and homes of friends, family and neighbors at any time of the day or night as if this were the most natural thing in the world; friends and family sitting down and having lots of tearful heart-to-hearts; Little League games, school assemblies and dance recitals, all attended by, you guessed it, scads of friends and family." But he argues that the intimate relationships being played out on the small screen belie the fact that Americans are lonelier than ever.
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 100 Candles on Her Next Cake,
and Three R's to Get Her There
Esther Tuttle is nearing the end of the 10th decade of a remarkably productive and adventurous life. If all continues to go as well as it has to date, next July 1 she will join the rapidly growing clan of centenarians, whose numbers in the United States have increased to 96,548 in 2009 from 38,300 in 1990, according to the Census Bureau.
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 Is Your Car Getting You
More Traffic Tickets?
At a stoplight, a woman in her 20s driving a red Pontiac Grand Am pulls up next to a 50-something man behind the wheel of a black Mercedes SL convertible. Which one of those two is more likely to get a traffic ticket?
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Alarms to Outsmart Sleepyheads
What does it take to wake you up in the morning? Would the rip of a chain saw do the trick? Sonic Alert Inc., of Troy, Mich., is targeting a notoriously deep-sleeping demographic-college students-with the Sonic Bomb, the Sweetheart and, just in time for Halloween, the Skull.
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 B12 Fraction May Lower
Risk of Alzheimer's
Serum levels of total homocysteine and the active fraction of vitamin B12 both appear to play a role in the development of Alzheimer's disease, a population-based study suggested.
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