Updated with further details at 4:30 p.m.
A San Bernardino criminal defense attorney was arrested on suspicion of accepting guns and drugs in exchange for his legal services, authorities said.
Gary Stephen Redinger, 59, who once ran for Superior Court judge, was arrested last Wednesday morning after a search of his house turned up suspected methamphetamine and more than 30 firearms, according to San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputy Donald Read the rest of this entry »

A two-year-old girl who died after her pushchair fell into the sea off Kent will be “sorely missed”, her parents have said in a tribute.
Rebecca Hopper was in a double buggy with her eight-month-old brother Lewis when they fell into the water at Warren Apron near Folkestone on Sunday.
Passers-by fought to rescue the two children and their father and his female friend from the water.
Her parents Andrew and Sarah Hopper said she was a “gorgeous Read the rest of this entry »

Family doctors are receiving cash bonuses not to send patients to hospital
despite National Health Service research that suggests incentive payments
can reduce the quality of care.
GPs are paid £1 per patient to spend time reviewing their decision to send
someone to hospital and a further £1 for every name on their surgeries’ list
if they reduce their previous year’s referral rate. An average surgery with
10,000 patients will receive Read the rest of this entry »

Washington (dbTechno) – According to a new report, Medicaid paid out over $200 million for drugs that were never approved by the FDA.
who carried out the investigation into the unapproved drugs.
What they found was that from 2004 to 2007, Medicaid paid out around $198 million for drugs never approved by the FDA.
This was not just a few drugs, as the investigation found they paid out the money for more than 100 unapproved drugs.
This could Read the rest of this entry »

“Nationally there is a move to make September men’s cancer health awareness month,” said Donna Ziegler, the cancer society’s director of prevention and advocacy in Regina.
“The third week of September used to be focused on prostate cancer but there is more of a move towards incorporating other cancers that affect men — the top four being colorectal, prostate, skin and testicular.”
These cancers are easier to treat if detected early, Ziegler Read the rest of this entry »

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, December 14, 2008
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The financial collusion between Big Pharma and medical journals is even deeper and more intertwined than we suspected. Documents revealed by Sen. Charles Grassley’s office show that the drug company Wyeth paid ghost writers to author medical journal articles hyping up the benefits of its HRT drug Prempro.
Sen. Grassley’s office produced “dozens of pages” of internal documents showing the Read the rest of this entry »

Dozens of incentive schemes have been uncovered which allow GPs to profit by
slashing the number of patients they refer for hospital care.
Under one scheme, GPs stand to gain 59 for every patient not referred to
hospital, if they cut an average referral rate by between two and eight per
cent.
Torbay care trust in Devon will pay up to 15,000 to the average-sized GP
practice if it hits a swathe of targets, including reducing hospital Read the rest of this entry »

Every legislative session, hospital executives trek to Albany and corral their legislators in an effort to get more money and better terms for their struggling facilities in New York City.
Last March, as the Legislature was rushing to complete a state budget, one such hospital’s executives were on the case, lobbying a state assemblyman using jargon that translated into a lifeline.
“We need a basic inflation factor,” an executive Read the rest of this entry »

Family doctors are receiving cash bonuses not to send patients to hospital
despite National Health Service research that suggests incentive payments
can reduce the quality of care.
GPs are paid £1 per patient to spend time reviewing their decision to send
someone to hospital and a further £1 for every name on their surgeries’ list
if they reduce their previous year’s referral rate. An average surgery with
10,000 patients will receive Read the rest of this entry »

The so-called “knockers” are not opposed to progress in
Dunedin but just want an injection of some commonsense and
responsible fiscal management, Pine Hill resident Calvin
Oaten argues.
Time to polish off the “knockers”, said former
editor Robin Charteris (ODT, 9.9.08).
Does he mean by knockers, the people who are concerned enough
about the future of Dunedin as to voice their opposition to
the council over its spending Read the rest of this entry »