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Retooled Vaccine Raises Hopes As A Lower-Cost Treatment For Type 1 Diabetes

For Hodalis Gaytan, 20, living with Type 1 diabetes means depending on an assortment of expensive medicines and devices ... a student at the University of Maryland. The burden of treatment is why a sm... read more

Sick, dying and raped in America's nursing homes

They come to nursing homes to be cared for. Instead ... threaten a nursing home with closure or open the door to costly lawsuits. Most sinister of all are administrators and employees who actively imp... read more

Government plans to cut number of elderly kept alive on feeding tubes

The government reimburses about ¥100,700 per feeding tube surgery, including the cost for the kit and 45 minutes of ... to travel to a clinic or a hospital from nursing homes for rehab and could be st... read more

Waynesboro native Jessie Dickey is gracing Broadway

Former Waynesboro resident Jessie Dickey said she is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut in “Wit,” the story of a poetry professor undergoing experimental treatment for cancer. “The cast is spect... read more

Panel says unused drug recycling program “makes sense” in Vermont

While there are no Vermont-specific numbers available, the federal government in 2015 estimated that nursing homes ... would cost Vermont $236,880 per year, the study group’s report says. read more

This city's air is killing people. Here's why

Government records analyzed by The Desert Sun reveal that people are dying of respiratory illnesses at a much higher rate in Mexicali than the Mexican national average, and that deaths from respirator... read more

Amazon's Recent 'Entry' Into Healthcare Is Naive

These drugs are among the most expensive and provide the lowest economic benefit ... Almost 15% of spending is accounted for at nursing homes, other residential facilities and home health, where wages ... read more

Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog

The University of Rochester published a study finding ... Health Sciences says that the findings raise questions on whether there is a financial reason rather than a medicinal one for those types of t... read more

How much would you pay to live for an extra year?

As doctors looking after patients, we are ethically driven to say that ‘I know it is expensive but my first duty is to help my patient – Dominic Wilkinson Wilkinson says ... nursing that would allow t... read more

Study: Health Spending Related To Opioid Treatment Rose More Than 1,300 Percent

But the dollar cost to the health system has been harder to peg. Now a new report shows a more than 1,300 percent rise in ... be seeking treatment. At the same time, prescription and illegal use of na... read more

Differences in Care at For-Profit Hospices

They’re also more likely to serve patients in nursing homes and assisted ... They’re just dying too slowly. Moreover, dumping those cancer patients from hospice actually cost Medicare money, the earli... read more

Inside the drug rehab ‘giving children back their mothers’

A 2016 impact study found ... a week cost for a mother and child, the treatment is expensive and cutbacks to council budgets mean some authorities struggle to afford it. Currently the house is half-fu... read more