Physicians Still Being Used In Army Interrogation, Bioethicist Says
U.S. Army psychiatrists may be participating in the interrogation of detainees, while ignoring recommendations to the contrary from professional medical associations, according to a Penn State bioethicist and a Georgetown University law professor.
“The American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted positions in 2006 that basically said Read the rest of this entry »
His feat could earn him a mention in the Guinness Book of Records – three sets of triplets from three different women! The first set of triplets, which came in 1970, was all boys. Two years later, another set of all-boy triplets came knocking. He capped it with a split two-boy-one-girl triplet in 1978.
Enter the world of David Sunday Olusola Oyedepo. According to Oyedepo, who hails from Igbajo town in Boluwaduro Local Government Area, Osun Read the rest of this entry »
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Authorities say a delegate to the Republican National Convention was robbed of jewelry and cash, worth a total somewhere between $50,000 and $150,000, after he took a woman to his Minneapolis hotel room.
29-year-old Gabriel Schwartz of Denver told police he met the woman in a bar, then took her to his hotel room at Hotel Ivy. Police say that once there, the woman made the man drinks and told him to get undressed.
He claims that Read the rest of this entry »
TOKYO (AP) — Japan has acknowledged that Allied prisoners of war were put to work in a coal mine owned by Prime Minister Taro Aso’s family, reversing previous denials after newly found documents provided proof.
The Health and Welfare Ministry said Friday that the wartime documents showed that 300 British, Dutch and Australian prisoners worked at the Aso family mine in Fukuoka, southern Japan, from April 1945 through Japan’s surrender four Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON – The first large study in humans of a chemical widely used in everyday plastics has found that people with higher levels of bisphenol A had higher rates of heart disease, diabetes and liver abnormalities, a finding that immediately became the focus of the increasingly heated debate over the safety of the chemical.
The research, published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a team of British and American scientists, Read the rest of this entry »
A Russian ice hockey star who died mid-match in October had been taking performance-enhancing drugs, say prosecutors investigating his death.
Alexei Cherepanov, 19, had been due to join the prestigious US National League but collapsed at a match in Chekhov.
Investigators said blood and urine samples showed he had been engaged in doping for “several months”.
They also said the striker had had a serious heart condition and should not have been Read the rest of this entry »
ALBANY – The job descriptions included security guard and
Medicaid fraud investigator. Yet former
, pick up her dry cleaning, and move a heavy stone Buddha to her home, only to order a worker back when she wanted it moved to a different spot, according to a report yesterday by state investigators.
Also former U.S. surgeon general, Novello is accused of forcing state employees to work overtime handling other personal chores, including grocery Read the rest of this entry »
His feat could earn him a mention in the Guinness Book of Records – three sets of triplets from three different women! The first set of triplets, which came in 1970, was all boys. Two years later, another set of all-boy triplets came knocking. He capped it with a split two-boy-one-girl triplet in 1978.
Enter the world of David Sunday Olusola Oyedepo. According to Oyedepo, who hails from Igbajo town in Boluwaduro Local Government Area, Osun Read the rest of this entry »
The drugs mules, often feigning disabilities, and frequently using wheelchairs, transported up to 50 kilos of cocaine or cannabis at a time from South America and Asia.
Three pensioners from Argentina were arrested in Peru with 50 kilos of cocaine hidden in 2,000 buttons for alpaca ponchos ready for export to Europe.
Another Argentinian in his 70s was arrested after a raid on a hotel in Amsterdam where drugs officers seized 50 kilos of cannabis Read the rest of this entry »
‘Inscrutable’ System Used To Price Medical Services Leads To Inflation, ‘Spells Doom’ For Uninsured, Op-Ed States
The “inscrutable way that health care providers and insurers put a dollar value on medical services” leaves patients “unable to determine a fair price for treatment,”
columnist David Lazarus writes. According to Lazarus, hospitals use a “cost-plus” system in which they charge patients and health insurers a portion of general overhead Read the rest of this entry »