A good percentage of the premiums or catastrophic health insurance amounts is going to health care fraud every year. GAO est of minimum fraud have consistently been in 10% to teens. Comment by Comment by patient – January 27, 2009 at 11:01 pm
This comment leads in a direction mentioned several times here between us: FRAUD. I served on a Federal Grand Jury for 18 months and became intimately involved with details of Medicare/Medicaid Fraud. Most Read the rest of this entry »

The employment of a convicted rapist at a hospital indicates a significant breakdown in the county’s vetting of health department staffers, county officials said. Perhaps most seriously, it raises questions about how many more county employees have criminal histories incompatible with their jobs, something county supervisors have yet to address.
“We had real pinheads working for us,” said Supervisor Gloria Molina, referring to managers who cleared Read the rest of this entry »

February 18, 2009 06:26 pm
Despite budget crunch, county looking to hire fitness instructors
Whitfield County is looking for a few good fitness instructors.
The parks and recreation department wants to hire three part-time employees to teach exercise classes at the county gym on Gillespie Drive and the Varnell gym. The county pays the city of Varnell $10,000 a year in in-kind services to use the gym.
George Page, director of the county parks Read the rest of this entry »

HAMILTON, Ontario, Jan. 21 — Gym class and other school fitness initiatives should be pursued even if their benefits don’t include weight loss, according to a systematic review.
School-based fitness and exercise programs improved duration of physical activity and fitness as measured by lung capacity while reducing television viewing and blood cholesterol, reported Maureen Dobbins, Ph.D., of McMaster University here, and colleagues in a Cochrane Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines -
Unfazed by threats from the communist New People's Army (NPA), United States troops will push through with their civic mission in Capiz in Western Visayas.
reported that Capt. Renante Besa, Army 3rd Infantry Division spokesman downplayed the threat of NPA attacks.
“There's no problem with the medical mission,” he said, adding the threats are “usual” and “expected.”
About 141 troops from the Army's 3ID are Read the rest of this entry »

Global medical device consulting firm Emergo Group Inc. surveyed more than 1,000 medical device manufacturers, distributors and industry service providers about the current state of their company and prospects for 2009.
Despite a continuing trend of gloomy economic data that seems to show the world economy slipping into recession, most medical device companies report positive domestic and international sales growth and continued optimism about prospects Read the rest of this entry »

HARARE,
— Cholera swept through the five youngest children in the Chigudu family with cruel and bewildering haste.
On a recent Saturday, the children had chased one another through streets that flow with raw sewage, and chattered happily as they bedded down for the night. The diarrhea and vomiting began around midnight. Relatives frantically prepared solutions of water, sugar and salt for the youngsters, aged 20 months to 12 years, to drink.
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or chemicals? That’s the dilemma for parents worried about a controversial substance found in the popular sealants that are painted on children’s molars to prevent decay.
The chemical is bisphenol-A, or BPA, which is widely used in the making of the hard, clear plastic called polycarbonate, and is also found in the linings of food and soft-drink cans. Most human exposure to the chemical clearly comes from the food supply. But traces Read the rest of this entry »

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina syringe factory linked to hundreds of sicknesses and five deaths operated for almost two years without an inspection despite a series of complaints that its needles were dirty or filled with colored particles.
Court documents in the North Carolina case show the U.S. Food and Drug Administration only inspected the AM2PAT Inc. plant in December 2007 after an outbreak of illness was reported by the Centers Read the rest of this entry »

, the FDA’s position would reverse the government’s current policy that certain groups — women of childbearing years, pregnant women, nursing mothers, infants and children — can be harmed by the mercury in fish and should limit their consumption.
, who in internal memos criticized them as “scientifically flawed and inadequate” and said they fell short of the “scientific rigor routinely demonstrated by EPA.”
The FDA sent its draft report, a copy Read the rest of this entry »