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Nurse Practitioners ‘critical Link’ in Meeting New Care Demands Sparked By Health Reform
One of the nation’s leading voices in patient care and safety says that the key to successfully navigating the challenges and changes that health care reform will bring is the ability to “reimagine and redefine” what nursing is all about. How...
‘Human’ Heart Surgeon And Phoenix Zoo Team Up to Save Wucaria, the Oldest Mandrill in U.S.
Veterinarians at the Phoenix Zoo welcomed the help of the Associate Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at St. Joseph’s Heart & Lung Institute, Dr. Brian deGuzman, to perform a delicate surgery on the oldest mandrill in the United States.
Inequities Exists in Disease Burden, Health Care And Access for Minority Children
Minority children in the US face a pervasive gap in the quality and extent of health care received compared to Caucasians, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics written by a UT Southwestern Medical Center physician. Science Brief...
Texas Hospital Group Agrees to Pay $27.5m to Settle False Claims Act Allegations
A hospital group based in McAllen, Texas, has agreed to pay the United States $27.5 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Statute between 1999 and 2006, by paying illegal compensation to...
Three Miami-Dade County, Fla., Residents Indicted in Connection with an Alleged $2.3 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
Three Miami-Dade County, Fla., residents have been indicted in connection with an alleged $2.3 million Medicare fraud scheme operated out of X-Press Center, a Detroit-area clinic that purported to specialize in providing injection and infusion therapies....
The Inconvenient Truth About Obama
While I follow all the cartoons that Mr. Fish provides to Truthdig regularly, I have to confess that I tend to find them a hit-or-miss affair; and today turned out to support both sides of that coin. On the one hand we had his “21st Century Saint”...
Opium Eases the Pain And Keeps the Children Quiet in Some Afghanistan Families
Tordi, 45, managed to quit her opium habit after six stillborn births and delivered a healthy baby girl. “I was using opium to ease my body pains and to be able to work better,” she told IRIN in her home in the Shortapa District of northern Balkh...
Jury in L.A. Convicts Equipment Suppliers of Medicare Fraud
A federal jury in Los Angeles has convicted the owners and operators of a Los Angeles-area durable medical equipment company of Medicare fraud. After a one-week trial in federal court in Los Angeles, the jury found Gevork Kartashyan, 45, guilty of conspiracy...
