Health Headlines for Thursday, April 7
Vireo Health sees replacing opioids with medical marijuana
Albany Times Union
A medical marijuana company operating in Minnesota and New York is proposing cannabis as a potential way to wean Americans off narcotic painkillers.
Discipline for nurses often delayed, denied
Albany Times Union
Thomas Maino knew he was going to die. Suffering from serious ailments, the 93-year-old veteran had rejected invasive treatments and asked only that he be made comfortable after he was admitted to a Syracuse nursing home in November 2008.
Study: Millions of New Yorkers are overusing hospital emergency rooms
WHEC Rochester
A new study shows millions of New Yorkers are overusing hospital emergency rooms and driving up everyone’s insurance premiums.
Why this insurance company pays employees hundreds of dollars to sleep
Albany Business Review
Need a little more sleep? If you work for Aetna Inc., you can get paid to do it.
The DEA Will Soon Decide Whether it Will Reschedule Marijuana
Fortune
The Drug Enforcement Administration says it will make a decision in the coming months that could prove to be a watershed moment for the burgeoning legal marijuana industry.
Hackers broke into hospitals despite software flaw warnings
Washington Post
The hackers who seriously disrupted operations at a large hospital chain recently and held some data hostage broke into a computer server left vulnerable despite urgent public warnings since at least 2007 that it needed to be fixed with a simple update, The Associated Press has learned.