Picking a nursing home for a loved one should not be trial and error, especially with nearly half of these facilities' residents suffering from dementia, according to a recent article in The New York Times. The decision to place a loved one in a nursing home is...
Parents may be making frequent dosing errors with their children's prescriptions and over the counter medications when estimating the amounts, according to a recent study. More than 40 percent of the parents interviewed for the study did not measure the...
The federal government's new tobacco regulations could be vulnerable to legal challenges from the tobacco industry due to an included "happiness quotient," according to a recent article in The New York Times. The cost-benefit calculation of the new regulations...
A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded there is another gene that can greatly raise the risk for breast cancer. The PALB2 gene is probably the most dangerous in terms of breast cancer after the BRCA genes, according to the...
Doubts remain about whether the benefit of prostate cancer screening is large enough to offset the harms caused by unnecessary biopsies and treatments that can render men incontinent and impotent, according to a recent article in The New York Times. A recent...
Taking the time to select the right nursing home is one of the most important steps families can take for the 1.4 million residents currently living in these often-feared institutional settings, according to a recent article in The New York Times. When paid for...
Mrs. Stamper had her bowel perforated by Dr. Draznik during open abdominal surgery to remove scar tissue and a portion of her fallopian tube that was inadvertently left in during a previous surgery performed by Dr. Draznik. By the time the perforation was diagnosed...
With over two million tractor-trailers on the road every day, Kentucky's Commercial Vehicle Enforcement division is working to prevent traffic accidents that could cause serious physical injury and property damage. The division protects the state's...
Scaling back use of a costly medicine given mostly to premature babies has caused a clash between the drug's manufacturer and the nation's leading pediatrician's group, according to a recent CBS News article. The drug, sold under the brand name Synagis, guards against...
Although improved cancer treatments and screenings have helped children and older adults live longer over the last 30 years, teens and young adults with cancer have not experienced the same rates of survival, according to a recent CBS News article. ...
