Recognizing that seniors face different health challenges than younger folks could help doctors and hospitals better safeguard older patients who undergo complex and demanding surgery. Paying heightened attention to age’s changes also can be beneficial to older adults in protecting themselves from damaging falls and getting retirees to keep moving to stay fitter — without….
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Washington DC Motorcycle Laws
Riding a motorcycle around Washington DC and the surrounding communities can be a fun and economical way to get around. However, when an accident occurs, riding a motorcycle can be costly. Unlike motor vehicles, motorcyclists aren’t safeguarded by reinforced steel cages, airbags, and seat belts. As such, motorcyclists often sustain the majority of the injuries….
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Walking around Washington DC can be a dangerous way to get around. In fact, in 2018, pedestrian deaths climbed in the DC area by nearly 20%. Of the 290 traffic fatalities in the greater Washington area that year, a third were pedestrians – the most in over a decade. The increase in pedestrian accidents throughout….
Continue ReadingFaith-based charity as the answer to crushing medical debt? Only in America.
Praise be: Churches nationwide are leaping in with their congregations’ blessing and financial support, putting up small sums to buy up and wipe out one of the huge shames of the American health care system: patients’ medical debt. The faithful work with RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit organization based in Rye, N.Y., that provides the….
Continue ReadingUncle Sam forced to disclose secret list of 400 poorly performing nursing homes
Federal regulators have given up the unwarranted secrecy enshrouding their watchdog efforts on the nation’s most problematic nursing homes. With prodding from the U.S. senators from Pennsylvania, Democrat Bob Casey (above left) and Republican Pat Toomey (above right), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) disclosed its list of hundreds of nursing homes that….
Continue ReadingIn season of higher risk for kids, cautions about mowers and pool chemicals
As the nation slips into summer and the statistical 100 deadliest days for kids, there are some timely reminders about keeping youngsters safer around swimming pools and the chemicals used with them and protecting them from the harms of riding mowers when the devices are run in reverse. The Red Cross, of course, reminds that….
Continue ReadingHospitals raise legal concerns by lavishing pay and perks on staff doctors
As hospitals boost their size and power to push their profits even higher, they’re also raising alarms with federal regulators over their too cozy relationships with doctors who are pulling down big pay from them now as part of their staffs. Uncle Sam long has sought to ensure that the billions of tax dollars that….
Continue ReadingCan we avoid getting dopey about hype, use, regulation of dope-derived CBD?
The federal Food and Drug Administration has waded into its potential oversight of a substance that already is becoming wildly popular. The process of figuring government rules for cannabidiol, aka CBD, well could be called Confusion By Design. The New York Times and Washington Post both reported on the parade of dozens of parties, pared….
Continue ReadingAs doctors warned UNC about heart surgery program, kids kept dying
Although big hospitals may love to pat themselves on the back and boost their profits and professional standings by claiming to offer “comprehensive” services, children may suffer and die due to the reality versus the hubris of institutions’ excessive initiatives with specialized care. Officials at the University of North Carolina blew past anguished warnings from….
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