President-elect Barack Obama is prowling for a new head for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which, in the eyes of some outraged Americans, is like hunting for someone to put tainted toothpaste back in its tube.
In the last several years, the agency has lurched from crisis to crisis. Whether the problem was poisonous pet food, sullied toothpaste and blood-thinner from China; food-borne salmonella; or dangerous drugs such as Vioxx, the FDA Read the rest of this entry »

The list of victims who have fallen prey to Bernie Madoff’s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme is growing longer by the day. Among its victims are countless nonprofit organizations, ranging from Yeshiva University and Tufts University to the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System Foundation.
Now at least one attorney general is asking for records to determine if trustees sitting on nonprofit boards failed to perform their fiduciary responsibility Read the rest of this entry »

psychiatric hospital known for treating celebrities and others with drug and alcohol problems has agreed to pay more than $60,000 to settle allegations that it employed a nurse who was excluded from Medicare and Medicaid. It is against the law for health care facilities to bill the government for services provided by people who are specifically excluded from doing so.
Silver Hill Hospital employed Elsa Briggs, who had been placed on an exclusion Read the rest of this entry »

HCM CITY — Bui Trong
Hop, head of the Trung Vuong Emergency Hospital’s Department of Infection
Control, said precautions had not been taken to prevent the transmission of HIV
from patients to medical workers.
Taking blood tests,
collecting medical waste, giving injections, and cleaning tools were possible
paths of transmission, he said.
According to a survey of
HCM City hospitals, more than 100 health workers have been infected by HIV Read the rest of this entry »

Stacy Perez says she can’t remember much about the car accident in September.
What the Hillsboro, Texas, woman does recall is how her car slammed into the side of a dump truck at an intersection at which she had the green light. She remembers losing consciousness and then awakening to find the flesh of her arm flayed by the broken glass of her shattered windshield.
But Perez says her most nightmarish memory of the accident was looking into the Read the rest of this entry »

Colombian Drug Lord Shot Dead in Madrid Hospital, Efe Reports
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) — Colombian drug trafficker Leonidas
Vargas was assassinated as he lay sleeping in a Madrid hospital
bed, Efe reported.
The 59-year-old, who was admitted to Madrid’s October 12th
Hospital on Jan. 2 suffering from stomach pains, was shot four
times with a silencer-fitted gun at around 8 p.m. local time
yesterday by one or two assassins, the news agency reported,
citing Read the rest of this entry »

It’s so easy to get caught up in routines — from what we eat, watch on television, when we sleep and when (and if) we exercise. My entire way of life is about to change and I have mixed feelings. I will be on a new routine on the road to complete tip-top physical condition, or so I hope.
Two weeks ago, when I signed up for Cindie’s 14-day boot camp at Body Natural Fitness Center, I was very enthusiastic. Cindie Demello is a personal trainer Read the rest of this entry »

United Way and the Veterans Council of Collier County will present a $23,360.40 check to the Collier County Commission. The money will pay for the purchase of a van that will transport veterans to medical appointments, as part of the Veterans Transportation Program.
Veteran Services will order a Ford Taurus X vehicle and will schedule delivery in the coming weeks. The new vehicle will carry a volunteer driver and five passengers.
The Veterans Read the rest of this entry »

- Agreement strengthens SXC’s lead in the Long-Term Care market -

LISLE, IL, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – SXC Health Solutions Corp. (“SXC”
or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: SXCI, TSX: SXC), a leading provider of technology
and pharmacy benefit management services, announces that its Health Care
Information Technology business group has been awarded a three-year,
multi-million dollar contract to provide its Resident Care Management (RCM)
offering of Read the rest of this entry »

DC’s “MO-vers and Shakers” Grow $30,181 for Movember
December 17, 2008
For the second consecutive year, DC’s “MOvers and Shakers” were the number one Movember USA Team with a total of $30,181.71 raised for the nonprofit Movember. Besides being the number one team, DC’s involvement expanded this year with numerous contests, a sandal, and participation from DC’s team riders.
To help support the cause, DC created “The DC Challenge” for the top Read the rest of this entry »