Tag: nursing-home
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Cranberries squashed as folk remedy for urinary infections
CHICAGO (AP) — Another folk medicine remedy bites the dust. Cranberry capsules didn’t prevent or cure urinary infections in nursing home residents in a study challenging persistent unproven claims to the contrary.
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India drug industry lobby hits back at antibiotic pollution claims
By Zeba Siddiqui MUMBAI (Reuters) – The head of an Indian drugs industry lobby group on Thursday said media reports linking pollution in some lakes and rivers to factories making antibiotics were not accurate and that drug factories were in compliance with local environmental rules. India’s $17 billion drugs industry is one of the world’s…
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Paramedics face hard choices at nursing homes
By Randi Belisomo (Reuters Health) – Too often, when an ambulance is called to a nursing home, the resident’s wishes regarding end-of-life care aren’t clear and the staff have differing opinions, leaving paramedics to navigate through the confusion, a new paper suggests. “For a patient nearing the end of his or her life, transfer from…