Tag: hospice-had
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Hospice teams may be overlooking teenaged family members
By Randi Belisomo (Reuters Health) – Teens with dying parents don’t benefit as much from hospice services as older members of the family do, a new study suggests. Most of the surveyed adolescents with a parent in hospice had zero or limited contact with staff, researchers reported in the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing.…
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CDC Issues Travel Warning After 5 Infected in New Florida Zika Transmission
A new cluster of five Zika infections around Miami Beach has led the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue a warning for pregnant women to avoid the area of transmission. In addition to the travel advisory that warns pregnant women to stay away from the part of Miami Beach where Zika transmission…
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Connecticut man fired for smoking marijuana at work wins appeal
By a 7-0 vote, the Connecticut Supreme Court ordered the reinstatement of an arbitrator’s ruling that Gregory Linhoff, of New Hartford, Connecticut, be suspended for six months without pay and subjected to one year of random drug testing. Linhoff, a state employee for about 15 years, was fired from his union job as a maintenance…
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Parents Want ‘Opt-Out’ Option for HPV Vaccine, Study Finds
The HPV, or Human Papilloma Virus, vaccine has continued to be seen as controversial. Despite years of recommendations and support from leading medical institutions, parents remain wary about requiring children to receive an HPV vaccination for school admissions, according to a new study. “We were expecting a higher number of parents supporting vaccine requirements,” study…