Dan Frith

The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services has created a great resource on the Internet for those families and individuals who are faced with the many questions surrounding the decision to move into a nursing home.What are the options? What services are provided? How do we pay for…

I recently discovered the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). The IHI is a non-for-profit organization leading the improvement of health care throughout the world. The organization was founded in 1991 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. IHI is a reliable source of knowledge and support for a never-ending campaign to…

Police in Cincinnati, Ohio have charged three employees of the Price Hill Nursing Home with patient neglect. Police received a call around 1:45 a.m. Monday morning from a resident inside the home saying he had been left alone. Investigators checked and found the three workers had vacated their posts at…

The NBC Nightly News ran a story on December 11 detailing the rise in the number of patients with Alzheimer’s disease – a progressive brain disorder that gradually destroys a person’s memory and ability to learn, reason, make judgments, communicate and carry out daily activities. Even more alarming is the…

We have previously written about the increasingly popular gastric bypass surgery for the morbidly obese patient. Now, surgeons at Duke University Medical Center have developed a “scoring system” based upon 5 risk factors to predict which gastric bypass surgery patients would be at the highest risk of death during or…

What is it like waking up everyday in a nursing home? Take a minute to read an article entitled “Embedded” published in the December 9th American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) on-line magazine. The link is http://www.aarpmagazine.org/health/embedded.html.

The patient, age 65, went to his doctor in Florida in order to stop smoking. The doctor ordered, among other tests, a Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) Test to screen for prostate cancer. The test revealed a PSA level of 119 – a high level and very suspicious of prostate cancer.…

The cornea is a part of the eye that helps focus light to create an image on the retina. It works in much the same way that the lens of a camera focuses light to create an image on film. The bending and focusing of light is also known as…