Is Your Sleep Elusive? – Looking for Care for Elders? Look to the Area Agency on Aging- Caregivers Corner-Medication Related Injuries
ELUSIVE SLEEP
Being able get to sleep and being able to stay asleep for many may be more of a goal than a reality. Understanding why we have sleep problems and what we can do to make them better, goes a long way toward getting rested and able to function well during your waking hours.
Dr. Evan Steep, a Pulmonologists and Sleep Specialist discusses in this first of a multi-part interview on what we need to know about sleep and what we can do to help ourselves and finding those that can assist.
Finding Answers to Care for the Elderly – Area Agency on Aging
There are a lot of things we just don’t know and it doesn’t matter until we have a need. Often issues of aging and care come about by a crisis and finding solutions can be a challenge. Marie Allen, Executive Director of the Southwest Area Agency on Aging in CT continues her interview to discuss even ,ore things you probably didn’t know.
Care Givers Corner
Gerontologist Sheryl Inglat discusses how we handle those care giving issues such as “You Didn’t Tell Me I Have an Appointment – I Don’t Want to Go” Search Sheryl Inglat for more topics on care giving.
Medication Related Injuries
The number of people treated in hospitals in the United States for problems related to medication errors has surged more than 50 percent in recent years. NY Times
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072411 Evan Steep – Sleep – Broadcast Part 2
072411 Marie Allen – Area Agency Track 2a – Broadcast Part 3
072411 Sheryl Inglat Shopping-Med Related Injury – Broadcast Part 4
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Medication-Related Injuries on the Rise
A Giant Pain in the Wallet
Until January, colchicine was sold by many companies and cost as little as 10 cents a pill. Now it’s available only under the trade name Colcrys, sold by a Philadelphia company called URL Pharma—for five dollars per pill.* The colchicine story, and a few others like it, have provoked ire among some patients and doctors about an otherwise praiseworthy effort by the FDA to get rid of old, untested, potentially harmful drugs. Slate 3/29/11
http://www.slate.com/id/2289616/
12/12/10 Do You Know a Parish Nurse? – Darvocet Pulled from Market – Vitamin D, a Must Have Vitamin
Do you know a Parish Nurse? Do you know what a Parish Nurse does? MaryJean Tague, Parish Nurse Coordinator with St. Vincents Medical Center in Bridgeport, CT met with Dennis and Dawn to discuss this growing trend in health and wellness.
Parish nurses tend to work with one large congregation or several small ones to help provide connections between faith and health. They may offer education services, work with people trying to understand complicated health care issues, and emphasize preventative health care measures in keeping with the teaching of the particular church they work for.
Get to know a Parish Nurse, it may change your life.
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Reading Links
http://www.parishnurses.org/DocumentLibrary/Parish%20Nursing%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf
http://www.parishnurses.org/
When Blind Faith in a Medical Fix Is Broken
Ideally, treatments, operations and diagnostic procedures should be thoroughly tested before they come into routine use. But that is not always the case. Drugs and medical devices have to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, but once they are on the market, doctors can prescribe them in almost any way they see fit, a practice called off-label use.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/health/26double.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssv
Vaccine, Flu
http://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Search/85,P00625
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flu_vaccine
Acid Reflux Drugs No Help for Asthma
A new study overturns the long-held practice of treating chronic asthma patients with medication for acid reflux. The study published this week’s New England Journal of Medicine finds that the drugs, such as Prilosec and Nexium, may not do anything to alleviate symptoms of asthma.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1890198,00.html
Acid Reflux Drugs No Help for Asthma
Acid Reflux Drugs No Help for Asthma: A Study shows the long-held practice of treating chronic asthma patients with medication for acid reflux may not do anything to alleviate symptoms of asthma.
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Newer Batch of Antipsychotics
Newer Batch of Antipsychotics raise issues of increased cardiac failure . A Vanderbilt University study appearing in the New England Journal Medicine was based on a large study group found and these new drugs not to be free of cardiac risk as previously thought.
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Pill Popping Sleepers
Pill Popping Sleepers – Almost 3 times as many young adults got prescriptions for sleep aides in 2006 as did in 1998 according to a recent Thompson Reuters analysis. On top of that the duration of these scripts increased from 64 to 93 days. Finding help in a pill comes easier when many were weaned on Ritalin.
Monday Tensions
Monday Tensions – “Chronic sadness of Sunday afternoon” describes how many start their work week. One third of Americans live with stress and 74% say it’s their job.
