Janet Wolfe, Ph.D., President of Wolfe Laboratories, Inc. (WLI) was honored as Boston’s Entrepreneur of the Year during the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s annual small business awards luncheon at the Colonnade hotel in downtown Boston. Janet accepted the award amidst an audience of local business leaders and spoke of the importance of pharmaceutical development [...]

The elderly man often uses a wheelchair to get around.
Still, that didn’t stop the owner of the nursing home where the man lives from allegedly choking the 74-year-old for as much as 30 seconds during an assault at the facility in Upper Moreland, authorities said.
Anand P. Mittal, the 58-year-old owner of Willow Crest Manor on [...]

North country hospital administrators believe business will continue as usual despite the new state law banning mandatory overtime for nurses that goes into effect next July.
A Gouverneur-based health care workers union, Service Employees International Union, Local 1199, has participated in lobbying for this legislation since 2000, said Patricia B. Greenberg, executive director of the union’s [...]

Waterbury and the muslin gray sky has yielded to a pale, hopeful blue. It has been hot this week, which, coupled with a cottony humidity, has lured apartment dwellers outdoors, where they sit on cement stoops, nursing fussy infants and slurping down plastic cups of cool ice water. At the corner of Central Avenue and [...]

Waterbury and the muslin gray sky has yielded to a pale, hopeful blue. It has been hot this week, which, coupled with a cottony humidity, has lured apartment dwellers outdoors, where they sit on cement stoops, nursing fussy infants and slurping down plastic cups of cool ice water. At the corner of Central Avenue and [...]

Checking a nursing home’s background is crucial in determining if Mom or Grandpa will receive good care. Has the home been in trouble before? Are there enough nurses? Are residents safe?
Yet it is easier for a consumer to find the repair and ownership history of a used car.
Mary Rismeyer knows this all too well.
Her 78-year-old [...]