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If legislators want to help patients make informed health care decisions, they should ensure that their state governments provide accurate, up-to-date information about doctors to the public on the Web. A report released in October by the advocacy group Public Citizen commends New Jersey for providing the most detailed information about its physicians on the…

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 it? These questions and…

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 improve health care worldwide. The…

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 50-bed facility. Read the…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/15/AR2006121501514.html?nav=hcmodule My friends at the Washington Post published an article this week about an antibiotic used to treat pneumonia. The side effects are so severe however, that the FDA has voted against the drug’s use for less threatening illnesses, such as bronchitis. Well – this raises an interesting point (and one we have discussed on…

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 fact that, according to the…

http://www.suntimes.com/business/knowles/167526,CST-FIN-health11.article Chicago Sun Times reported yesterday, that Illinois families are paying more for healthcare, and getting less. The USA Families group compared the increase in health care costs, to increase incomes – and found that health care cost were increasing at a % rate, much higher than incomes were increasing – and, to top it…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/29/AR2006112900128.htmlMy friends at the Washington Post recently published an article on how Medicare costs were below projected rates this year. Really? As the baby-boomers age – as life expectancy in the United States increases annually – as elderly pinch pennies in order to have enough to pay for food, health care and other basic needs…

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 following the procedure. Are you…

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.