Batman Annual #12 (1988) by Robert Greenberger & Norm Breyfogle
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Bronze Tiger Profile from Who's Who in the DC Universe (1990) #9
By Robert Greenberger, Luke McDonnell, Geof Isherwood & Anthony Tollin
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The creation of the DC multiverse was revealed in Crisis on Infinite Earths 7#, cover date October, 1985. The issue also saw the sacrifice of Supergirl. ("Beyond the Silent Night", Crisis on Infinite Earths 7#, Comic, Event)
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Bob Greenberger Launches Kickstarter for Pulp Anthology
Bob Greenberger Launches Kickstarter for Pulp Anthology
With over 100 books and anthologies to his name, including several for Star Trek, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics, Robert “Bob” Greenberger has no shortage of publications. Yet thanks to his passion for pulps, he’s kicking off another book project to add to his impressive list of credits.
Greenberger recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund his latest project: Thrilling Adventure Yarns…
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Batman Annual #12 (1988) by Robert Greenberger & Norm Breyfogle
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For decades, nursing homes have been using drugs to control dementia patients. For nearly as long, there have been calls for reform.
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan signed a law banning the use of drugs that serve the interest of the nursing home or its staff, not the patient.
But the practice persisted. In the early 2000s, studies found that antipsychotic drugs like Seroquel, Zyprexa and Abilify made older people drowsy and more likely to fall. The drugs were also linked to heart problems in people with dementia. More than a dozen clinical trials concluded that the drugs nearly doubled the risk of death for older dementia patients.
In 2005, the Food and Drug Administration required manufacturers to put a label on the drugs warning that they increased the risk of death for patients with dementia.
Seven years later, with antipsychotics still widely used, nursing homes were required to report to Medicare how many residents were getting the drugs. That data is posted online and becomes part of a facility’s “quality of resident care” score, one of three major categories that contribute to a home’s star rating.
The only catch: Antipsychotic prescriptions for residents with any of three uncommon conditions — schizophrenia, Tourette’s syndrome and Huntington’s disease — would not be included in a facility’s public tally. The theory was that since the drugs were approved to treat patients with those conditions, nursing homes shouldn’t be penalized.
The loophole was opened. Since 2012, the share of residents classified as having schizophrenia has gone up to 11 percent from less than 7 percent, records show.
The diagnoses rose even as nursing homes reported a decline in behaviors associated with the disorder. The number of residents experiencing delusions, for example, fell to 4 percent from 6 percent.
— Phony Diagnoses Hide High Rates of Drugging at Nursing Homes
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Red Tornado Profile from Who's Who in the DC Universe 1990 #12
By Robert Greenberger with art by Jason Pearson and Joe Rubinstein and Tom McCraw
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In Crisis on Infinite Earths 2#, cover date May, 1985, the Anti-Monitor was introduced. Anti-Monitor threatened the end of not only the universe, but all of the multi-verse in DC Comics first ever Maxi-series. The events of Anti-Monitor and the Crisis on Infinite Earths changed the entire DC Universe. He was created by Marv Wolfman, Len Wein, Robert Greenberger, and George Perez. ("Time and Time Again", Crisis on Infinite Earths 2#, Comic, Event)
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