Month: April 2012

Between January 1, 1985 and January 1, 2010, the FDA received 828 incidents of patients caught, trapped, entangled, or strangled in hospital beds. The reports included 493 deaths, 141 nonfatal injuries, and 194 cases where staff needed to intervene to prevent...

Watching our grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles grow older has its own set of stresses.  As those we love fall victim to the ailments of aging, we worry about our lives without them, all the while learning to provide care for them.   We look to medicines,...