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HARTFORD: The Senate voted May 7 to give final legislative approval to a Democratic bill permitting municipalities, nonprofits, and small businesses to join the state employee health insurance pool.
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There are wide variations among the states in problems such as illicit drug use and underage drinking, but no state was immune from those problems. That's the finding of a new report from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
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The 1918 influenza epidemic was the most serious epidemic the United States has known, leavings hundreds of thousands of people dead and millions infected with a highly contagious flu virus.
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As bad as the individual consequences of not having health insurance are, the uninsured cause a larger negative impact on the U.S. economy as a whole that is often overlooked.
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As Congress and pundits debate ways to stimulate the American economy out of its current recession, lessons learned from the 2003-2004 fiscal relief that included a temporary increase in the federal share of Medicaid spending can be instructive.
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Consumer direction of personal assistance services (CD-PAS) can offer Medicaid beneficiaries flexibility and independence to individualize their services.
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Antibiotics are frequently prescribed to patients with advanced dementia in nursing homes, which poses two potential ethical dilemmas, both in the treatment burden placed on patients at the end of life and the spread of antimicrobial resistance in the nursing home community, a research group reports.
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People in occupations involving high stress or high burnout rates, such as hospice care, are at risk for suicide, advises the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). People having unrelenting long-term pain or a disabling or terminal illness also are at risk, ACEP says.
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Wash hands, wear gloves, and clean equipment. All nurses know that these are the basic steps to take to protect patients from infection. What about the nurses' bag? How clean is it, and does it pose an infection threat?
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed changes to the Medi-are hospice wage index for FY 2009.
