Medicare Limits Coverage of Alzheimer’s Drug To Patients In Clinical Trials

Source: New York Times Ever since Medicare proposed to sharply limit coverage of the controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, the agency has been deluged with impassioned pleas. Groups representing patients insisted the federal insurance program pay for the drug. Many Alzheimer’s experts and doctors cautioned against broadly covering a treatment that has uncertain benefit and serious […]

Over 100 Complaints of Illness From Breakfast Cereal; Middlesex College Dental Hygiene Clinic Services

Sources: RLS Media TapInto.net NJ The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating Lucky Charms cereal after dozens of customers complained of illness after eating it. The FDA says that as of April 16, it has received more than 100 complaints related to Lucky Charms this year. “The FDA takes seriously any reports of […]

Covid NJ: Rutgers Nursing Students Brought In To Help as Omicron Variant Surges

Source: TapInto.net New Jersey In late December, COVID-19 was wreaking havoc again and state health officials were worried. The omicron variant was causing some of the highest case levels since the start of the pandemic, hospital beds were filling up, and nurses and other health care workers were getting sick or quarantining because of exposure. […]