If 2025 seems like it’s ambitiously close for finding an Alzheimer’s disease cure or game-changer, take heart — there’s a recently released Alzheimer’s study that may serve as...
‘Intensive’ blood pressure treatment benefits seniors, won’t increase fall risk
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May 23, 2016
Increasing the level of blood pressure therapy for older adults can reduce their risk of heart disease without raising fall risk, a new study has found.
EEOC issues final rules on workplace wellness programs
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May 18, 2016
Employers may offer employees and their spouses incentives for joining workplace wellness programs up to 30% of their individual “self-only” health coverage, the Equal Employment Opportunity...
FDA to beef up warnings on opioid painkillers
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Mar 24, 2016
Labels for certain opioid pain medications will soon be required to carry a warning about the drugs’ risks of misuse and death, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday.
Psychiatrist gets 9 months in prison for nursing home drug kickback scheme
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Mar 15, 2016
A Chicago psychiatrist who prescribed the antipsychotic clozapine to thousands of nursing home residents in exchange for kickbacks was sentenced to 9 months in prison on Friday.
SNF employee pleads not guilty to murder, ‘flips off’ resident’s family
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Feb 25, 2016
A former nursing home employee pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murdering a resident — but not before apparently aiming a crude hand gesture at the resident’s family.
In it for the long term
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Feb 23, 2016
There was one positive highlight the day I started working as a cashier at a Culver’s restaurant long ago: meeting Betty. She had to at least be in her 80s. She was tiny and spunky, greeting us all...
Former SNF worker charged with murder in resident death
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Feb 17, 2016
A former Illinois nursing home employee was charged on Tuesday in the murder of a resident.
State supreme court revives nursing home whistleblower retaliation case
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Dec 17, 2015
A former nursing home employee who claims she was fired for raising staffing and safety concerns will have her case heard by a jury, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled on Tuesday.
Lawsuit paves way for low-cost Alz drugs to enter market unimpeded
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Dec 01, 2015
A resolution has been reached in a “groundbreaking” antitrust lawsuit that will prevent pharmaceutical companies from impeding access to low-cost, generic Alzheimer’s drugs, the New York...