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Here is a revolutionary piece of news about Alzheimer’s Disease that you won't forget anytime soon. According to a recent article in Forbes Magazine, a team of researchers at Georgetown University have developed a simple blood test which they say can predict, with 90...

Just how crazy is the following story? You decide. According to Crain's Business Magazine, prominent pharmaceutical manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals and a subsidiary have agreed to pay approximately $28 million to the state of Illinois and the United States in a...

Time to punch yet another hole in your money belt - things are getting tighter. The belt buckling and cost-cutting taking place our industry is hitting yet another unprecedented level. According to a recent article in McKnights Magazine, The White House's proposed...

The US Food and Drug Administration announced a proposed regulation on Monday to ban certain ingredients in anti-bacterial soaps if manufacturers cannot prove that these products are safe to use and more effective than plain soap and water for preventing the spread of...

The folks up in Boston are going absolutely crazy - and it's not because the Red Sox won the World Series. According to a recent article in the Boston Globe, an ongoing debate over nursing homes' use of antipsychotics flared during a meeting of the Joint Committee on...

Just when you thought our political leaders couldn't possibly shake up the healthcare industry any more than they already have, politicians in the State of New York figured out how to do just that. An October report released by officials outlines a plan to keep more...

Will Venezuela prove to be the newest battleground for GPOs in the medical supply industry looking to expand market share across the globe? Only time will tell. As Venezuela reels in political and economic crisis, hospitals continue to send sick patients home from a...

The politicians in Washington are keeping the SNF industry on its toes with the new Affordable Healthcare Act and it's complete revamping of the previously predictable marketplace. But that's not the only thing we should be looking at uneasily. An unrelated fight over...

Healthcare workers - particularly nurses, nurses' aides, orderlies, and attendants - suffer more musculoskeletal injuries than those working in any other field, a Public Citizen report found. Those injuries cost the U.S. about $7 billion each year, according to the...

Overall, the cost of care among facility-based providers has increased over the last five years, according to the Genworth 2013 Cost of Care Survey. Nationally, the average price for assisted living care was $41,400, according to Genworth’s findings, while the average...