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A Nursing Error Led to My Son’s Unexpected Death

This is the story of how the unmonitored use of patient-controlled analgesia and nursing errors led to the unexpected death of a mother's only child (and how it might have been prevented).

Netiquette Essentials Gives You Tips for Online Etiquette

Netiquette Essentials is a quick read guide to internet manners that can help you become a better citizen of the Internet.

Allergic to Your Home? 10 Decoration Swaps That Can Help

Get ready to spring clean, because here are the 10 items in your home that you need to purge and replace with their perfect hypoallergenic replacements.

Getting to the Heart of Population Health

It's time to abandon the notion that "personal responsibility" is the solution to every health problem so that the hard work of affecting cultural change can be taken up in earnest.

Practical Solutions to our Misaligned Care Problem 

The current payment model for pharmacy does not align with quality care and needs to be replaced with a model that rewards patient-centered care.

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Press Congress to Pass the 2017 Federal Budget with the Planned Boost for Alzheimer’s Research and Care 

At the end of 2016, Congress failed to pass a 2017 budget and instead passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund federal agencies at 2016 levels through April 28, 2017 (see H.R. 2028). Some in Congress want to pass a yearlong CR at the 2016 funding levels, which would mean that the planned increases for dementia research and care programs would be lost. It is critical for advocates to support efforts by U.S. House and Senate appropriators to move a 2017 federal budget bill this March. Here’s what you can do to help to protect the planned increases in funding for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

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