Family can’t sue nursing home after resident’s undiagnosed COVID led to husband’s death
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 27, 2024
The family of a former nursing home patient cannot sue the facility or a doctor there for discharging her while a COVID-19 test was pending, even though she soon passed the virus onto her husband, who...
Group defines long COVID in effort to unify healthcare entities, improve medical responses
By
Kristen Fischer
Jun 12, 2024
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has published a new report that better defines long COVID. The group put together the consensus document at the federal government’s...
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, May 7
By
Kristen Fischer
May 07, 2024
Survey: Cost, quality of home care top older adults’ health concerns … Safety needs to be priority in outpatient care, study finds … Angioplasty, stenting help men, women with peripheral artery disease...