ALSO NOTED: Rost bites Pfizer's feeding hand again; HCA selling rural hospitals; and much more...

> Pfizer's dissident executive Peter Rost will give evidence against pharma companies accused of conspiring to control prices in the US by keeping Canadian drugs out of the market. Story

> The California insurance commissioner may look into the United-Pacificare deal. Story

> GE Healthcare's profits were up 15 percent last quarter. Story

> Harvard University says it is investigating a professor who may have violated conflict of interest rules by not mentioning a link between fluoride and cancer in his work when he was editing a magazine for Colgate. Story

> There are still too many unused hospital beds in New York state. Story

> HCA said it will sell five hospitals in rural Virginia to Lifepoint Hospitals for $285 million. Story

> California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is in hot water after revelations that he accepted a $1 million per year consulting fee from a publisher of muscle magazines and then vetoed a bill controlling nutritional supplements which provide 90 percent of those magazines' advertising. Story

> Hopes are high for the new generation of inhaled insulins. Story

> Maine has hired consulting firm Deloitte to conduct a study of MaineCare, its troubled Medicaid program. Story

> The Wall Street Journal reports on the somewhat dubious practice of paying doctors to promote drugs. Story (sub. req.)

> Pollster Harris Interactive reports that there are now 117 million cyberchondriacs -- Americans who go online to look for health information. Story (Wall Street Journal sub. req.)

And Finally... A clinical study shows that having strangers praying for heart patients doesn't seem to show any health benefits. Story