New Connecticut Law Requires Disclosure of Home Care Registries
AN ACT CONCERNING HOMEMAKER SERVICES AND HOMEMAKER-COMPANION AGENCIES
is a new law that will provide protection to elderly consumers and their families. The law, which goes into effect January 1, 2012, will help Connecticut families make more informed decisions when hiring a home care agency to provide care for their aging loved ones.
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Vitamin E boosts prostate cancer risk
US researchers warned Tuesday of an alarming link between vitamin E supplements and a 17 percent increased risk of prostate cancer, describing the findings as an “important public health concern.
Vitamin E boosts prostate cancer risk
5 Surprising Signs of Breast Cancer
You’ve been told all your life to be on the alert for breast lumps, the primary sign of breast cancer. But a lump isn’t always the first sign of malignancy, or it may not be the first change a woman notices
5 Surprising Signs of Breast Cancer
My Dog Ate My Prescription
Despite vast differences among patients, major clinical guidelines assume that everyone should get the same type of care so as to ensure the best possible outcome for all. This egalitarian approach to patients is considered an ethical touchstone of modern medicine. But all patients are not created equal. Slate.com
Knowing What’s Worth Paying for in Vitamins
Americans love vitamins. About half of adults take a daily multivitamin, according to industry data. And according to some theories, the economic downturn has inspired them to fortify themselves by swallowing more. New York Times
Knowing What’s Worth Paying for in Vitamins
White Flight From the Nursing Home
The number of older Americans living in nursing homes continues to fall, and the proportion of residents who are black, Hispanic or Asian has climbed sharply. But don’t expect cheers from the Brown University researchers who’ve tracked this major shift in long-term care. With greater scrutiny, then, this demographic trend represents a less happy reality. Just as minority seniors are pouring into nursing homes, whites are turning to more attractive choices and staying out. The New York Time July 15, 2011
Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy
Medicine is rapidly changing in the United States from a cottage industry to one dominated by large hospital groups and corporations, but the new efficiencies can be accompanied by a telling loss of intimacy between doctors and patients. And no specialty has suffered this loss more profoundly than psychiatry. New York Times 3/5/11
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/health/policy/06doctors.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=health
Docs warn about teens and ‘Facebook depression
Add “Facebook depression” to potential harms linked with social media, an influential doctors’ group warns, referring to a condition it says may affect troubled teens who obsess over the online site.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42298789/ns/health-mental_health?GT1=43001
Cellphone Radiation May Alter Your Brain. Let’s Talk.
In a culture where people cradle their cellphones next to their heads with the same constancy and affection that toddlers hold their security blankets, it was unsettling last month when a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association indicated that doing so could alter brain activity. New York Times 3/30/11
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/technology/personaltech/31basics.html?ref=health
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/
