Hospice care happens at the end of life, when a patient is coming to the end of a terminal disease, or simply passing away at the end of their lives. Hospice services can be arranged either in the patient's home or in a facility where staff is typically on call 24 hours a day, 7 [...]
Internet retailers are starting to run afoul of the Federal Trade Commission with their deceptive use of list prices and virtually fictional suggested retail prices in order to entice buyers into thinking that they are getting a good deal when they buy online. Dynamic pricing, as the practice has come to be known, according to [...]
Do you drive a connected car? Do you ever wonder about the security of your data? If you don't, maybe you should start, because the computer systems in your car are tracking how you drive, your speed, and whether or not you use a seat belt – and your vehicle has the ability to share [...]
Last summer we ran a story about an investigative report by CNN that exposed the high mortality rate for pediatric heart surgery at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. Although nine infants died in the pediatric heart surgery program between 2011 and 2015, actual death rates for the heart surgery department were [...]
This is a reminder about how careful you must be when considering the results of medical studies even when they have been published by such highly esteemed publications as the New England Journal of Medicine. At the end of January 2016, the NEJM published a study: Prevalence and Characteristics of Physicians Prone to Malpractice Claims. [...]
Do medical residents learn better when they work 16 hour shifts, hand-off their patients to another doctor and return to work after a good night’s sleep – or is it better for them to work 30 consecutive hours? A research study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is looking to answer [...]
In today’s world, there is perhaps nothing as important as credit. Good credit can help us buy homes, finance cars and make improvements to our lives; bad credit can cost us thousands of dollars in interest and even our dream jobs. But what happens when your “bad” credit is the result of an inaccuracy on [...]
Even if you do not have a Facebook account, the chances are good that you have looked at a company’s Facebook page at some point. After all, a tremendous amount of online marketing is done through social media outlets, and Facebook leads the pack. Since the EU has suspended the Safe Harbor Act, however, European [...]
Most consumers understand that when you do not pay your bills on time, it can have an adverse impact on your credit score. However, many consumers may not realize that the opposite is also true: their credit history can affect their monthly bills, and some companies charge an added fee to the monthly bills of [...]
It seems like we hear about massive data breaches every week where thousands or millions of subscribers or customers' data was hacked and stolen by hackers and other cyber “bad guys.” However, if you knew how much information about who you are, where you live, your spending habits, the places you travel, etc. is available [...]
