TCGRx, a provider of pharmacy packaging and automation solutions, has acquired ARxIUM’s Panasonic FastPak EXP and FastPak 71 pouch packaging business line. The acquisition will help TCGRx to provide enhanced services to the hospital ...
Lighting tailored to the needs of an individual can improve sleep and reduce depression and agitation in persons with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a recent study led by Dr. Mariana Figueiro, Light & Health Program Director at the ...
Tags: Tailored Lighting, LRC
Older adults in long-term care facilities often spend their days and nights in dimly-lit rooms with minimal time spent outdoors. The constant, unvarying dim light found in many long-term care facilities means that older adults are not ...
Tags: LRC, Older adults, Lighting
Drugs can be administered directly into the body through injections, infusion, or through other drug delivery devices. Drug delivery devices are the devices or formulations used to inject therapeutic substances in the body through a ...
Tags: Devices Market, treatment, Medicine
Therapeutic lighting can be a prescription for better health, especially for seniors with dementia in long-term care facilities. Now, more and more-effective products are needed to implement the highly positive research results achieved to ...
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Teragren has added Aaron Cline to its technical support team as technical manager. With over 20 years of experience in the hardwood flooring industry, Cline brings a broad knowledge base and a strong understanding of best practices, and ...
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US-based ScriptPro has signed distribution and co-marketing agreement with packaging solutions provider TCGRx for adherence packaging technologies. As part of the deal, ScriptPro will provide TCGRx's adherence packaging technologies to ...
Pharmacy automation supplier TCGRx has launched new pouch packaging, the CompletePac, which is said to address adherence packaging at the point of discharge from hospitals and rehabilitation units in long-term care. In a safe and ...
Tags: Packaging, pouch packaging
Patrick J. Murphy Jr., M.D., director of the University of Louisville Home Call Program and professor of geriatrics in the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine, has been named one of six finalists for a national award recognizing ...
Tags: Finalist, Recognizing Leadership, Long Term Care, AMDA
Today's headlines include detailed coverage of the Obama administration's announcement that it will delay a health law requirement that mid-sized employers provide health insurance to workers while also allowing larger employers more ...
Tags: Medicaid Managed Care, Health Law, Obamacare, Anti-ACA Sentiment
A selection of health policy stories from Rhode Island, California, Massachusetts, Virginia, Florida, Wisconsin, Missouri and Minnesota. Providence Journal: Chafee's $43-Million Cut In Medicaid Program Touches Many Sectors Of Health Care ...
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: Hospitalization Of Elderly Medicaid Long-Term Care Users Who Transition From Nursing Homes To compare ...
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: Hospitalization Of Elderly Medicaid Long-Term Care Users Who Transition From Nursing Homes To compare ...
The number of infections with dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria at VA long-term care centers has dropped since a program to combat the problem was launched in 2009, a new report shows. The initiative to reduce the number of ...
Tags: MRSA Germ Cases, VA Program, Health News, Medicine News
Exercise can provide older breast cancer survivors with lasting benefits that keep their bones strong and help prevent fractures, a new study suggests. Breast cancer treatment is associated with the loss of bone density and lean body ...
Tags: exercise, Breast cancer treatment, bone density, lean body mass