Jacksonville Nursing Home Still Facing Complaints

Jacksonville nursing home still facing complaints

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“It's not right what they're doing,” Springfield native Ray Verardi, 69, a resident of North Church Nursing & Rehab since February, said last week about the care he and other people received at the facility. After being interviewed twice by The State …
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Widow who pushed for medical marijuana law not allowed to use it

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Doctors prescribed bottles of blue liquid morphine for his excruciating pain. “It's a pretty bad cancer,” says Dr. William Markey, the Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center gastroenterologist who treated him. The morphine didn't help. “His pain was …
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Blood test may identify risk of suicide

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By comparing the blood of those who are suicidal, those who are not, and those who had previously committed suicide, researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and the VA Medical Center in Indianapolis identified levels of protein …
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