Officials investigate illnesses in assisted-living facility
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TROY, Mich. Health officials are investigating the cause of an illness that has spread through an assisted-living facility, leaving one resident dead and eight hospitalized.
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The Sept. 26 slaying of Thomas Mullen and the arrest of his roommate John Tamkun, a retired cabinetmaker who suffers from dementia, have cast a spotlight on a growing problem at nursing homes across the country: violence among residents.
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Regional Health Department works to make sure that area&#39;s elderly people living in group settings receive scarce flu shots. A new supply of flu vaccine is finding its way to area nursing homes.
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Federal authorities have announced that a Bethesda nursing home already under scrutiny by state officials in connection with the deaths of two patients could lose its Medicaid certification this month because of concerns about the care it provides.
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Business & money: New research indicates almost three-quarters of people are worse off as a result of looking after a disabled or chronically sick relative.
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Investigators are probing whether oxygen tanks, among other possible causes, may have started a fire at an adult care home that killed one person and put more than a dozen in the hospital, authorities said Tuesday.
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PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio  -- More than 300 people appear to be linked to a mysterious illness including nausea, fever, and vomiting in recent weeks on Lake Erie&#39;s South Bass Island, health officials said Thursday.
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A patient in a vegetative state can communicate using her thoughts, according to research.
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After a number of E. coli-related illnesses have recently been reported in the state, area health officials are asking Twin Counties residents to look for warning signs of the disease.
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Two congressional committees said yesterday that they would investigate business practices at nursing homes owned by private investment groups.
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Carlos Ramos, assistant secretary at the California Health and Human Services Agency, said: &quot;The investigation is continuing but we have no idea if the [personal] information has been compromised.
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An investigation was underway today into a cluster of three cases of Legionnaireâs Disease. Health officials in East Yorkshire said the inquiry has been set up because it is unusual
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LOS ANGELES -- The orthopedic department at the troubled King/Drew Medical Center in South Los Angeles is the latest target of a county investigation.
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Investigators began searching through the ruins of an adult care home Tuesday after a late night fire killed one resident and left four others critically injured.
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By Chris Metinko, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 1--As the country's senior population grows by the day, local services and agencies are dealing with an influx of calls from those now caring for seniors who can no longer care for themselves.
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ROCKVILLE, Ind. -- Two staff members at a nursing home abused demented residents, encouraging one to expose her breasts and another to hit himself in his genitals, a state agency said.
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Researchers have found more cases of an illness that&#39;s causing cramps, diarrhea, nausea, fever and chills among visitors to the Put-In-Bay resort area, the Ohio Department of Health said Saturday.