Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, paid $3.85 million last
month to settle a similar qui tam lawsuit brought by Kite. The hospital
consultant also was one of several whistleblowers who filed qui tam lawsuits
alleging outlier fraud by other New Jersey hospitals. The hospitals that have
settled those cases involving outlier payments were: Warren Hospital in
Phillipsburg, New Jersey (paying $7.5 million); Bayonne Medical Center Read the rest of this entry »
Valley Medical Center’s emergency room is reopening after officials determined a chemical affecting a mother and her son patients was not hazardous to the general public.
The South Bay’s busiest ER was closed down for almost five hours and nearly 100 staff members, patients, visitors, firefighters and police officers were being decontaminated before the announcement at 1:45 p.m. that the chemical was hydrogen sulfide, described as a sewer gas by-product Read the rest of this entry »
A regional family-planning organization has announced support for three federal lawsuits filed in Connecticut to block the Monday implementation of the Department of Health and Human Services’ “conscience rule.”
Adagio Health, which provides services in 23 counties in Western Pennsylvania, is supporting the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, which filed its lawsuit in conjunction with the American Civil Liberties Union. Read the rest of this entry »
MILFORD, Nov 18, 2008 (New Haven Register – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) –
— Officer Ethan Mitkowksi’s newly grown mustache is a conversation starter.
It’s also admittedly “kind of ridiculous” looking, but that’s exactly the point.
Mitkowksi is one of about 30 police officers who are sporting the throw-back facial fashion as a way to initiate conversations about prostate cancer prevention and men’s health issues.
“It’s Read the rest of this entry »
Her
glowing skin and svelte figure has millions of girls aspiring to be in her
shoes. But Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor says it is her ‘vegetarian’ diet
that keeps her fit and
glowing.
“Apart from doing yoga
to keep myself fit, I am a pure vegetarian. I don’t eat meat and that has helped
me a lot to keep fit,” said
Kareena.
“I am proud to be a
vegetarian and I am against those who eat meat. Go green to be fit, that’s the
best way for Read the rest of this entry »
Oct. 6-12
Weekday help needed in King and Snohomish counties. Volunteers stay with patients in their homes, assisting with tasks and offering emotional support to terminally ill patients; preregistration required. (425-556-6372 or
).
Puget Sound-area residents can get a one-hour massage and help fight breast cancer; preregistration required. Various times and locations, donations accepted (877-777-ENVY or
).
A mobile mammogram program is Read the rest of this entry »
Twins born prematurely on a Scottish island have been transferred to the mainland on an RAF Hercules aircraft.
The Scottish Ambulance Service said the mother went into labour at 27 weeks and gave birth in hospital in Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, on Sunday night.
Medical experts had been working to stabilise the babies, whose condition was described as “very poor”, before the flight to a hospital in Glasgow.
The Hercules had to be brought Read the rest of this entry »
A 30-year-old La Quinta man accused of exchanging drugs for sex with a boy over the course of a four-year period is being prosecuted on felony charges, authorities said Wednesday.
Christopher Charles Meyerson pleaded not guilty on Jan. 9 to the six-count complaint, which alleges the crimes began in May 2004, when the victim was under 14 years old.
The charges include aggravated sexual assault on a child, committing a lewd and lascivious act on Read the rest of this entry »
HARBIN, China
,
Jan. 7
/PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/– SOKO Fitness & Spa
Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SOKF), today announced that the company will
present at the ICR XChange Conference.
The ICR XChange Conference, taking place at the St. Regis Monarch Beach
Resort in
Dana Point, CA
, is being held on
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
, and
Thursday, January 15, 2009
. Management is currently scheduled to present at
January 15, Read the rest of this entry »
CAPITOLA – A large motor home was fully engulfed in flames on Windward Lane at 8:15 this morning, according to emergency dispatchers.
Central Fire responded to the call. Battalion Chief John Ritchey said the motor home ran out of gas when the owner pulled into the private road to fill up.
“He put gas inside the carburetor to get things going, but it backfired and caught fire,” Ritchey said. “He was inside the unit to access the motor when it happened.” Read the rest of this entry »