As retirement nears, many older adults consider the benefits that an active-adult community can offer. For some, the option to downsize out of an over-large house can mean a more comfortable retirement and a larger estate to pass on to…
As retirement nears, many older adults consider the benefits that an active-adult community can offer. For some, the option to downsize out of an over-large house can mean a more comfortable retirement and a larger estate to pass on to…
The Department of Veterans Affairs has been wrapped-up in scandal and jumping from one crisis to the next. Amid all these stories, another important issue is getting lost in the tumult: the VA’s commitment to women veterans’ health care. A…
The recent fertilizer plant explosion which caused multiple fatalities and serious injury in West, Texas, has raised the public visibility of workplace safety issues. “Every worker should be able to feel that their safety and the safety of their coworkers…
Johns Hopkins researchers recently found that diagnostic mistakes accounted for 28.6 percent of the 350,706 medical malpractice claims paid between 1986 and 2010. They arrived at this number after studying the National Practitioner Data Bank, a database of all malpractice…