President’s budget proposal cuts Medicaid payments to providers by $28.8 billion over 10 years
Feb 15, 2011
President Obama released his $3.7 trillion budget for FY 2012 Monday, and it would lower Medicaid payments to healthcare providers by $28.8 billion over 10 years.
Survey: Prices for seniors’ drugs rise twice as fast (again)
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Haymarket Media
Aug 17, 2005
The average prices of drugs that elderly Americans use most often rose more than twice as fast as general inflation last year, according to survey results released Tuesday. It’s the third straight...
AARP: High drug costs could hurt benefits of Part D program
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Haymarket Media
Apr 14, 2005
Wholesale prices for brand-name prescription drugs are rising so high they might work against the benefits of the new drug benefit that is expected to take effect this January, according to AARP, which...
Clinical briefs for Monday, Feb. 22
By
Alicia Lasek
Feb 22, 2021
Pfizer vaccine’s deep-freeze storage and second shot may be unnecessary … For-profit nursing homes are ‘worst performers’ in COVID infection control analysis … Researchers pinpoint too-low diastolic...
Alzheimer’s vaccine shows promise in lab tests
May 21, 2008
A new vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease offers new hope in the laboratories of the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Clinical briefs for Thursday, May 5
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
May 05, 2022
Opinion: CDC’s new pain guidelines will be “bridge to nowhere” without improved care access … Remdesivir slightly lowers death, ventilation in hospitalized COVID-19 patients … Link between...
Aging experts in Dallas, Washington broadcast the same message: Chronic disease is not inevitable with...
By
Tim Mullaney
Oct 30, 2013
There was synergy between Dallas and Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Prominent speakers at the LeadingAge conference in Dallas addressed what it means to age well and how people’s understanding of...
Clinical Briefs for Thursday, December 12
By
Alicia Lasek
Dec 11, 2019
Inappropriate antibiotics given to 22% of seniors … Use of pain, sleep meds increases frailty risk in the elderly … Triplet study shows that genes aren’t the only factor in Alzheimer’s...
FDA: Viral mutations unlikely to cause false negatives in COVID-19 tests
By
Alicia Lasek
Jan 11, 2021
The agency has alerted healthcare providers that it is monitoring approved SARS-CoV-2 molecular tests to ensure that new viral mutations do not alter their accuracy.
Copper surfaces lower healthcare-acquired infection rates, study finds
Jul 05, 2011
Installing antimicrobial copper surfaces in hospital intensive care unit rooms reduced the risk of acquiring hospital-related infections by more than 40%, according to new research. This finding was the...