Dan Frith

The e-journal, ScienceNews, published an interesting article this week concerning the affects of lead on children who grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. The article is alarming!Mothers of the studies’ participants were recruited from 1979 to 1984 from neighborhoods in Cincinnati with a lot of old, lead-contaminated houses and historically high…

Many families need assistance for elderly parents during the daylight hours….when the grown children are at work and there is no one to care for a parent who needs supervision. Here is where “Adult Day Care” facilities come into play.Adult Day Care provides a safe and caring setting for adults.…

It is my experience the best nursing homes not only have the best nurses and aides, but they have plenty of them. Face it, the primary care givers are the front line, hands -on nurses. The nurse or aide who assists with dressing, hygiene, feeding, medication, bathing, therapy, assessment, treatment,…

I read with interest an article which appeared in the Roanoke Times today. The article entitled, “Roanoke Council OKs Expansion of Nursing Home” was written by Mason Adams. The article reported that Roanoke City Council voted 6-0 yesterday to approve a 3,000-square-foot expansion of the Raleigh Court Health & Rehabilitation…

I was surprised to learn that commonly prescribed medications can impair our vision and cause diseases of the eye. A recent report, published in Drug Safety, identified 62 drugs that can cause adverse reactions to the eye.Public Citizen, on its WorstPills.org web site, summarizes the report and details how the…

The press has been filled with articles recently about drug mistakes in hospitals. The wrong drug given to the wrong patient…the right drug given to the wrong patient…and even the right drug given to the right patient but in the wrong dose (actor Dennis Quaid’s newborn twins)!These articles got me…