A part-time firefighter who stored cocaine and cannabis worth about £115,000 in his home in Inverclyde has been jailed for four and a half years.
Alan Brown, 32, admitted the offence at his home in Glamis Drive, Greenock, in April last year.
The High Court in Glasgow heard how the Brown had agreed to store the drugs, which were recovered during a police raid, for a payment of more than £100.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Current government rules do too little to protect the privacy of people’s personal health information and also hinder the use of health data in medical research, a panel of experts reported on Wednesday.
A committee of the Institute of Medicine, which provides advice to U.S. policymakers, urged Congress to take an entirely new approach to protecting personal health data in research.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – Two of western
’s largest health
insurers are the latest to sign on to a nationwide push to reform
how patient reimbursement rates are set.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says Independent Health and
HealthNow New York will no longer use a faulty database to
calculate reimbursement rates for patients who see doctors outside
their insurance networks.
,
Conn.-based
and MVP Healthcare of Albany.
Cuomo says the Ingenix database, Read the rest of this entry »