A Delaware trial court found for a nursing home resident who applied for Medicaid and was denied for insufficient information in Green Valley SNF, LLC v. Delaware Dept. of Health and Social Services (Del. Super. Ct., No. 13A-02-002 (RBY), Dec. 31, 2013).
A person’s cholesterol level may be a predictor of amyloid plaque build-up in the brain, a new study finds.
Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in California believe they have developed a simple blood test that could prove effective in predicting heart attacks.
Older entrepreneurs may have the advantage over their younger counterparts due to experience and potentially greater financial resources. In 2012, Kauffman Ewing Institute found that those businesses that survived startup were more likely to have primary owners older than 45.
Social Security beneficiaries will receive a 1.5 percent COLA increase for 2014 beginning with the December 2013 benefits which are payable in January. In 1973, Congress legislated cost of living increases to help benefits keep pace with inflation. COLAs are based on increases in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and clerical…
Need your glucose levels to be monitored? It might be as simple as placing a contact in your eye or wearing a pair of glasses. At least that’s what the techies are betting. Bloomberg reported that at least four Google employees met with regulators from the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). Some of the employees supposed…
Remember having chickenpox? If you’re like most people you had splotchy, itchy skin for a couple weeks as a child unless you were vaccinated and then the disease was gone. While chickenpox can cause problems for people with autoimmune disorders, pregnant women, newborns, teens or adults, it’s usually not a problem for children.
Katie White was admitted to Charles Morris Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Pennsylvania on March 11, 2009. As part of her admittance, her son, Solomon White acting as her POA signed the admission agreement as a responsible party. This obligated him to apply his mother’s income and assets to her care and held him…
A report from Duke Medicine found that health care costs correspond to an individual’s body mass index (BMI). As their BMI increases so too does their health costs. The study published in the journal Obesity, reported that researchers found that medical and drug claims rose gradually with each unit increase in BMI, beginning at…
Media reports often claim that Medicare patients are unable to find physicians willing to take Medicare and for a variety of reasons are forced to go without medical care. These are troubling concerns as having good access to quality care means being able to find a doctor to see and then being able to…
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