Risky Antipsychotic Drugs Still Overprescribed In Nursing Homes

Risky Antipsychotic Drugs Still Overprescribed In Nursing Homes - Your Health Guide:

A study published Monday by Human Rights Watch finds that about 179,000 nursing home residents are being given antipsychotic drugs, even though they don’t have schizophrenia or other serious mental illnesses that those drugs are designed to treat.

Drugmakers Spent Millions Promoting Opioids To Patient Groups, Senate Report Says : The Two-Way : NPR

Drugmakers Spent Millions Promoting Opioids To Patient Groups, Senate Report Says : The Two-Way : NPR:
And I'm sure Hospice/Palliative Care made a bundle off the Drugmakers considering all the overdosing to Murder our Loved ones!

Drugmakers gave millions of dollars to pain-treatment advocacy groups over a five-year period beginning in 2012, in effect promoting opioids to individuals most vulnerable to addiction, according to a new report released Monday by a U.S. senator.                         The 23-page report, put out by Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, sheds light on the pharmaceutical industry's efforts to shape public opinion and to fuel demand for such lucrative and potentially addictive drugs as OxyContin, fentanyl and Vicodin. These drugs have played a key role in the addiction crisis that has swept the U.S. in recent years, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives.

What Not To Believe About Hospice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8gQIDLyE8&feature=youtu.be

As more hospices enroll patients who aren’t dying, questions about lethal doses arise

As more hospices enroll patients who aren’t dying, questions about lethal doses arise - The Washington Post:

The hospice industry is booming, but concerns are rising about treatments for patients who aren't near death.

The Roles of Health Condition, Health Behaviors and Socioeconomic Factors in Racial Disparities in Sepsis Mortality

RPubs - Table 4bc:Sex- Adjusted Hazard Ratios for Age at Death Sepsis Mortality:
Table 4bc:Sex- Adjusted Hazard Ratios forAge at Death Sepsis Mortality
Project Overview

THIS OUTPUT EXAMINES HAZARD OF DEATHS WITH SEPTICEMIA CODES (A40) AND COMPARES TO DEATHS WITHOUT SEPTICEMIA OR INFLUENZA/PNEUMONIA

One reason flu can kill is the worst illness you never heard of: SEPSIS

One reason flu can kill is the worst illness you never heard of: sepsis | Commentary | Dallas News:

On the last Monday in January, a Fort Worth woman named Angie Barwise went to her doctor for flu treatment.On Wednesday, she was feeling no better, and her husband took her to the emergency room. She was admitted to the hospital on Thursday. By Saturday, she was dead. In less than a week, an otherwise healthy adult who took the flu seriously and followed medical instructions was gone.

Multicenter meta-analysis reveals sepsis patients can be risk stratified at the time of diagnosis

Multicenter meta-analysis reveals sepsis patients can be risk stratified at the time of diagnosis:
Project led by scientists from the University of South Alabama, Sage Bionetworks, Duke University and Stanford University
MOBILE, Ala., Feb. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Why do some people die after they develop a severe infection while others with similar risk factors survive? Sepsis, which is defined by a life-threatening dysregulated host immune response to infection, is a leading cause of in-hospital deaths in the United States. However, physicians still lack accurate tools that predict moderate risk patients who will die from sepsis from those that will not.

One reason people die from Sepsis is because they're denied Antibiotic's by at least one Nashua, NH Hospital! Pure Fact!