Jan 09 Navigating the complexity of a long-term care insurance policy By Laura Santhanam Long-term care insurance plans can be difficult to understand and families who use them are sometimes faced with navigating complex rules, all while caring for a loved one. Bradley Frigon with the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys says the… Continue reading
Jan 08 How emerging technologies can help with care for ill or frail family members By Bonnie Lawrence, Family Caregiver Alliance We get news every day of remarkable developments in the tech world that claim to make our lives better, easier, or more organized. For families and friends caring at home for ill or frail adults, innovations in health technology promise… Continue reading
Jan 06 Watch 7:51 How should U.S. regulate powerful painkillers? By PBS News Hour Forty-six people die every day in the U.S. after overdosing on prescription painkillers, causing some states to crack down. Are tighter laws creating new problems? Judy Woodruff gets views from Bob Twillman of the American Academy of Pain Management and… Continue watching
Jan 06 Watch 7:56 What's next in the global response to Ebola? By PBS News Hour What's next for curbing the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, where the death toll now exceeds 8,000? For one, drug companies have begun to experiment on humans in the affected region. Gwen Ifill talks about new approaches with Anthony Banbury,… Continue watching
Jan 05 Experimental program helps seniors move out of the nursing home By Sarah Jane Tribble, WCPN The average costs for an individual in the experimental program (which is called Money Follows the Person) is $49,000. Under traditional Medicaid it costs about $64,000 annually for nursing home care in Ohio. Continue reading
Jan 02 Watch 4:11 Luck, not lifestyle, may be to blame for more cancers than previously thought By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 02 Meat industry bristles at suggestion of sustainable dietary guidelines By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press A panel that advises the Agriculture Department is ready to recommend that you be told not only what foods are better for your own health, but for the environment as well. That means that when the latest version of the… Continue reading
Jan 02 Bad luck, not genes or the environment, cause for many cancers, researchers find By Margaret Myers, Jason Kane Sometimes there just isn’t a good explanation for a cancer diagnosis other than random bad luck. That’s what researchers at Johns Hopkins have found. In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, oncologist Dr. Bert Vogelstein and biomathematician Cristian… Continue reading
Jan 01 Watch 7:53 Want to keep your New Year's resolutions? Stop living in the present and focus on the future By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 01 Mimicking real-life experience for alcoholics, NIH transforms lab into a bar to test treatment By Lauren Neergaard, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The tequila sure looks real, so do the beer taps. Inside the hospital at the National Institutes of Health, researchers are testing a possible new treatment to help heavy drinkers cut back -- using a replica of a… Continue reading