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Police arrested a Pennsylvania nursing home employee who now faces charges of reckless endangerment and nursing home neglect. The former employee, a certified nurses aide, is alleged to have covered up a 96 year-old woman’s fall at a nursing home. The CNA was supposed to be caring for the elderly woman when the patient fell.…

We get calls often “I live in Texas, my Mom is in a nursing home in Florida, but my sister knows your firm” “What are the laws in Texas?” Well, I am neither licensed in any state other than Va and West Va., nor am I able to answer questions on other states. A super…

Many people believe that Medicare will pay their bills for nursing home care, if needed. Not true! Medicare will only pay in certain limited situations (rehabilitation after surgery) and then for a very limited time period (often 100 days). Medicaid will step in and pay but only if you qualify – which means you have…

If it hasn’t happened to you, it probably has happened to someone you know. A patient goes into the hospital for an emergent or elective procedure and contracts an infection that ends up being far worse than the medical problem which sent them to the hospital in the first place. These infections are called “nosocomial”…

The Society for Vascular Surgery, representing the nation’s 2,400 vascular surgeons, is now recommending 3 separate screening tests for patients 55 years of age or older who have cardiovascular risk factors. The risk factors include high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, high cholesterol, known cardio-vascular disease, or family history of abdominal aortic aneurysms. The first screening…

A new study shows that while prostate-specific antigen (PSA) measurement remains an important monitoring tool, it performs poorly in distinguishing those who will develop lethal prostate cancer from those at low or no risk of disease progression. The results are reported in the April 4 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, where…

We have said it here before but the main problem with nursing homes is that the owners refuse to hire enough staff to provide good care for the residents. The corporations which own America’s nursing homes put profits ahead of people. This recent article about a state owned nursing home in Arizona documents more of…

There I go again – reading the Washington Post… and what did I find? An article about a topic I am very interested in. Drug Companies and their relationships with physicians. Read here:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/28/AR2007042800896.htmlThe author, Christopher Lee, writes about a recently published study in the New England Journal of Medicine, which reflects 94 percent of doctors…

Is your local hospital constantly reducing its staff to make more money? My local hospital, Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, is the largest hospital in western Virginia and is constantly trying to reduce it costs and increase its profits. Overcrowded hospitals that are pushing too hard to streamline and cut costs are putting their patients at…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is examining whether Eli Lilly & Company provided it with accurate data about the side effects of the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa, a potent medicine that has been linked to weight gain and diabetes. The FDA has questions about a Lilly document from February 2000 in which the company found…

A new report from the Alzheimer’s Association says there are more than 5 million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer’s disease today. That is a substantial increase, from the estimated 4.5 million people with Alzheimers in 2002. (see http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=65701).Researchers estimate that number will climb to 14 million people by 2050, unless a…