Health Care News and Resources – Week of April 16, 2018

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

• Scientists Push Plan to Change How Researchers Define Alzheimer’s, from National Public Radio.

COPD

• ‘Scary’ Lung Disease COPD Now Afflicts More Women Than Men in U.S., from NBC News.

GENE EDITING

• Breakthrough Brings Gene-Editing Medicine One Step Closer to Patient Applications, from Science Daily.

HOME HEALTH CARE

• Shortage of Home Health Care Aides is Serious, Agency Says, from The Post-Star.

HOSPITALS

• Moses Ludington Now Part of Elizabethtown Hospital, from The Sun Community News.

MEDICAID

• Donna Frescatore to Take Over as State Medicaid Director, from Politico.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA

• Medical Marijuana’s ‘Catch-22’: Federal Limits on Research Hinder Patients’ Relief, from Kaiser Health News.

OPIOIDS

• A Vaccine for Opioid Addiction? It Might Not be That Far Off, from Kaiser Health News.
• Will Surgeon General’s Opioid Overdose Plan Make a Dent in Drug Crisis?, from Healthline.