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 Lawsuits Don't Lead to Better Nursing Home Care
We tend to think of a lawsuit as a kind of slingshot allowing the little guy to take on a daunting Goliath - a large nursing home chain, say. If you can't persuade a facility to provide proper care, if your elderly relative has suffered unnecessarily as a result, then you can sue.
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 Black Patients Will Spend Heavily to Extend Life
Black cancer patients are more willing than whites to exhaust their personal financial resources to extend life, according to a large observational study.
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 Home Care, Assisted Living Boosted by U.S. Life Expectancy Increase
With the life expectancy of Americans now over 78 years, demand for long term care facilities is strong and future prospects continue to look positive for services such as assisted living, nursing homes and home care, according to Kalorama Information. The healthcare market research publisher estimated the long term care market in the U.S. to be $258 billion in 2010. The findings were included in their report on the industry, Long Term Care Market: Nursing Homes, Home Care, Hospice Care, and Assisted Living.
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 Evidence-Based Heart Attack Care Reduces Deaths: Study
The increased use of evidence-based treatments for heart attacks, such as clot-busting drugs and rapid angioplasty, has led to a decrease in deaths, a new study finds.
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 Pain Medication, Resiniferatoxin, May Increase Sepsis-Related Mortality
Pain researchers from the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children's National Medical Center have discovered that resiniferatoxin, a drug that has shown early promise as an option for chronic, severe pain sufferers, may decrease the body's ability to fight off bacterial infections, particularly sepsis.
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 Miami Medicare Scammers Sentenced
Three Miami-area medical professionals were ordered to prison this week for their roles in a $23 million Medicare fraud scheme involving bogus billings for HIV infusion therapy, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services has announced.
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 Florida seeks to limit nursing home lawsuits; names new nursing home ombudsman
Lawmakers in Florida are proposing a controversial bill that would put a $300,000 cap on non-economic damages in wrongful death cases involving nursing homes.
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 Medicare Patients Aren't Taking Advantage Of Some Newly Free Tests
Despite tough economic times, there are some things the government can't give away. Starting this year, seniors enrolled in Medicare no longer have to pay for more than a dozen tests and other services to help prevent or control cancer and other costly and debilitating diseases. These benefits, which also include an annual wellness exam, are part of the new federal health-care law.
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 Doctors' New Advice for Joint Pain: Get Moving
Doctors increasingly are recommending physical activity to help osteoarthritis patients, overturning the more traditional medical advice for people to take it easy to protect their joints.
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 Jog.fm Suggests the Best Music for Your Workout Based on Your Performance
We've previously looked at creating the ultimate workout playlist, which involves calculating the beats per minute (BPM) of your music and choosing the songs that work best. Jog.fm takes the work out of that process for you by not only providing the BPM but suggesting the best music based on your average mile time.
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 Older and Colder
I was oddly excited to read that a couple of scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., had published a huge study of the relationship between age and body temperature. Here at last, I thought, might be the answer to one of life's most enduring mysteries: Why do assisted living facilities and nursing homes always feel like Phoenix in August? Do old people really prefer, or need, such relentlessly toasty temperatures?
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