In 1996, Ralph Nadar testified before Congress saying GM’s radical Corvair was “unsafe at any speed,” thus earning him the populist mantle of the day because he spoke the common language of the people and dared to express shared pain and suffering. Well, here it is 2008 and all of a sudden, it seems [...]

Before we get all excited over the recent news about coffee being our new antioxidant, we need to take a look at the entire picture. Is there truly a coffee antioxidant? If there is, how exactly is coffee an antioxidant? Does it become the antioxidant when it’s heated? Does the coffee antioxidant benefit everyone? [...]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced an initiative to crack down on fraud in the Durable Medical Equipment (DME) industry as reported by Medicare News Today. Responding to the news, a spokesperson for the DME healthcare industry responded:
The American Association for Homecare welcomes and supports efforts to crack down on [...]

OK, I admit it, I will go to almost any length to justify my love of fishing and to invent (if need be) reasons to indulge in my hobby. But, researchers may have just provided the perfect, iron-clad reason to wet hook and line and eat the catch. A recent article in the Journal [...]

If you had to venture a guess, what would you think is the fastest growing crime affecting older Americans? Years ago, burglary and robbery topped the list. Today, it’s identity theft. According to Consumer Sentinel, the complaint database developed and maintained by the Federal Trade Commission, 22,191 seniors across the country fell victim to [...]

Two days ago, a grieving husband entered a nursing home and shot his ailing wife and then turned the gun on himself. Many are asking, “How could this have happened?” Some will fault the security in the nursing home. Many will wonder how someone who professes to love another can take that life under any [...]

It’s the New Year. You’ve probably got lots of ambitious plans for change. This time, you want to make them stick. The first thing you need to know is, it’s not easy to change. The second thing is, you probably have no idea how to do it.
Here are some principles of change from the [...]

Another year has come and gone. The days fly by and our list of things that we wanted to accomplish during the year are often left unattained. But, the good news is a new year always rolls around and gives us the opportunity to make a new list of dreams and goals for us [...]