By Reed Abelson, The New York Times, Sept. 30, 2019. Jessie McCormick had to quit her job to afford health care. Ms. McCormick, 27, who has a heart condition, had an opportunity to move from part… Read More
By Victoria Knight, Kaiser Health News, Oct. 9, 2019. Dean Ernest had been living in a nursing home about a year when his son, John, got a call last winter asking if his father was… Read More
By Melissa Bailey, The Washington Post, Oct. 13, 2019. > APRA Summary: Hospitals have become so overzealous in fall prevention that they are producing an “epidemic of immobility.” One-third of patients 70 and older… Read More
By Madeline Farber | Fox News, Oct. 11, 2019. A nurse is suing Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J., claiming she was retaliated against after reporting that some of her colleagues working the night shift gave… Read More
By Marty Makary, Newsweek Opinion. Oct.10,2019. It’s hard to think of a worse way to pay for health care than our current system. Imagine if travel websites listed flights with no prices, as airline companies… Read More
Despite FDA warnings, state boards lag in taking action on controversial MS treatment By John Fauber of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Kristina Fiore and Matt Wynn of MedPage Today. March 28, 2018. In 2012, James McGuckin Jr. performed a risky, unproven… Read More
By Emily Bazar, California Healthline. After a colonoscopy two years ago, Patti Damare felt so delirious and weak that she couldn’t stand on her own. That was on a Friday, and she chalked up her… Read More
The FDA says this is the same cancer-linked chemical found previously in blood pressure medications. By Erika Edwards, NBC News, Sept. 13, 2019. The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that low levels of a cancer-linked chemical have been… Read More
By Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, the President of The John A. Hartford Foundation. August 20, 2019. An Interview with the Institue for Healthcare Improvement. In a recent Health Affairs article, you and Shannon Brownlee of… Read More
By Misha Valencia, Healthline. Aug. 30, 2019. Under any other circumstances, it would be a crime. So why is this the exception? When Ashley Weitz went to the emergency room at a local hospital in… Read More