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Maybe you, your spouse or your children have suffered through a bout of the flu this season. It is not a lot of fun! The aches, chills, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. But for all of the terrible symptoms of this dreaded illness…it is rarely fatal to otherwise healthy Americans. However, the flu can be deadly…

I found this website today – www.heart-soul-music.com Check it out… Their mission: “Our vision of a perfect world is that every nursing home would have one professional-quality live show every day and have appropriate recorded music available to the residents for the other 23 hours of the day. This is not a very expensive proposition…

February 20, 2008 – Breaking news out of Tampa Florida Authorities: Caretaker stole nearly $500K from blind woman, 93LUTZ — A former caretaker has been arrested after stealing nearly $500,000 from a 93-year-old blind woman, authorities said. Barbara J. Mulert, 61, worked as a caretaker for Lutz resident Kathryn Dahman, 93, from 2001 to 2007.…

FDA Says It Approved The Wrong Drug Plant – Heparin Probe Sends Inspectors to China(www.washingtonpost.com) By Marc Kaufman “The Chinese facility that supplies the active ingredient of the widely used blood thinner heparin was never inspected by the Food and Drug Administration because the agency confused its name with another just like it, agency officials…

Four recent deaths at Our Island Home nursing home in Nantucket, Massachusetts are being blamed on a respiratory virus typically found at day care centers. The patients ranged in age from 71 to 96 and all died over the span of one week. Officials at the nursing home say the virus is the most common…

It never ceases to amaze me! The FDA just does a lousy job protecting Americans from the pharmaceutical industry…also known as “Big Pharma.”The FDA has proposed a rule to get around a law passed by Congress that helps hold negligent drug companies accountable for injuries to consumers caused by prescription drugs. Congress passed the Food…

Yes, we are all vain…we all want to look young and vigorous! Medical professionals perform all kinds of procedures and surgeries to make us look younger…including face lifts, tummy tucks, body contouring, liposuction, collagen, and on and on. Botox injections are popular as well. These injections are marketed as a simple, non-surgical, physician-administered treatment which…

We see this all the time… Jury says facility is negligent, and the Department of Health says the facility did nothing wrong. No really, the self-policing arm of Virginia’s long term care system is often asked to review records, perform inspections, and report to the public as to care provided in facilities. Sometimes they get…

Breaking news – After initially resisting their disclosure, the Bush administration on Tuesday published the names of 131 nursing homes with poor inspection records and said some were already showing signs of improvement. Want to see the full list? http://www.cms.hhs.gov/CertificationandComplianc/Downloads/SFFList.pdf Sadly – people know these facilies provide sub-standard care, but residents remain – payments are…

Heparin can be scary stuff…. Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that the maker of Heparin, Baxter International Inc., has temporarily stopped productions. This is the company’s response to 350 possible reactions to the drug which has caused death, kindey failure etc.. (or so they say). Heparin is most often used in cardiac and orthopedic sugeries,…