Nursing - March 31, 2015 Maine skilled nursing facility agrees to pay $1.2M to feds Federal prosecutors say a Maine elderly living center has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle allegations of inflated Medicare claims for rehabilitation therapy. The U.S. attor... - Read More Assistants without nursing qualifications to take blood from donors Blood donors will be increasingly cared for by assistants without nursing qualifications under controversial changes being carried out by the Australian Red Cross Blood Service ... - Read More China aims to double doctor numbers as cure for healthcare woes China will almost double the number of its general doctors by 2020, trim its public sector and improve technology as it seeks to fix a healthcare system plagued by snarling queu... - Read More Marie Curie's Great Daffodil Appeal: Taking the time to take care As Marie Curie's Great Daffodil Appeal draws to an end, York nurse Caroline Leslie talks through her invaluable work. Kate Liptrot reports. - Read More AJN honors six of Elsevier's nursing book titles with Book of the Year awards Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that six of its nursing book titles are recipients of ... - Read More Apple A Day Might Keep The Pharmacist Away An apple a day might not keep the doctor away, but it might help keep the pharmacist at bay, a new study suggests. "Everybody thinks of the apple as a healthy food, and it is, b... - Read More Apple a Day Keeps Pharmacist Away: Study Munching each day on a McIntosh, Granny Smith or other apple might not keep the doctor at bay, but a new study finds apple eaters are less likely to need a prescription medicine... - Read More Official: 2 Cuban nurses attacked in coastal Jamaica town " Jamaica's health ministry says two nurses from Cuba have been "brutally attacked and injured" by a gunman who invaded their residence in the small Jamaican town where they wer... - Read More BBC political editor Nick Robinson says tumour operation was 'complete success' BBC political editor Nick Robinson has said an operation to remove a tumour from his lung was a "complete success". Robinson, who announced in February that he was undergoing tr... - Read More |