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Europe pulls Viracept license
European Union regulators have suspended Swiss pharma company Roche's license to sell the HIV drug Viracept (nelfinavir) because of continuing concerns about contamination with toxic ethyl mesilate.... Read more...
MDs, others face charges on Net pharmacy operation
A federal grand jury in San Diego has indicted 18 people on charges arising from a large-scale Internet pharmacy operation. The grand jury charged these individuals with racketeering, fraud and money... Read more...
Radiation proves to be scandal of the week for King-Harbor
You might be a bit sick of reading about the massive problems dogging Los Angeles-based Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital. But the hospital keeps producing news that may have a kernel of useful... Read more...
CMS cites King-Harbor: Patient was in 'jeopardy'
A nurse has been fired and a supervising nurse put on administrative leave in light of yet another ugly incident at Los Angeles-based Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital. CMS, which already was... Read more...
CMS begins inspection of troubled King-Harbor
Federal inspectors have begun their in-depth review of operations at Los Angeles-based Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, which has seen countless troubles in recent months. If King-Harbor... Read more...
Louisiana doctor targeted by state files lawsuit against AG
Dr. Anna Pou certainly has been through hard times since Hurricane Katrina hit, particularly when the state of Louisiana arrested her for allegedly euthanizing four patients during the storm. Now,... Read more...
Case dropped against New Orleans nurses
The ordeal is over for two New Orleans nurses who were arrested last summer on second-degree murder charges after Hurricane Katrina. The nurses, Lori Budo and Cheri Landry, had been accused of killing four patients at Tenet's Memorial Medical Center with a "cocktail" of lethal drugs. But the district attorney has now dropped the case, largely because the two testified in a grand …
... Read more...AMA demands retail clinic regs, backs off ban
While they backed off from demanding an all-out ban on retail clinics, delegates at the AMA annual... Read more...
LA officials grapple with hospital death
Los Angeles county officials are struggling to make sense of how a woman died, allegedly without treatment, at an area hospital. Forty-three year old Edith Isabel Rodriguez had come to Martin Luther... Read more...
Feds accuse device makers of "buying" doctors
The largest U.S. makers of artificial knees and hips are facing an investigation by federal prosecutors, who say that the companies illegally paid off surgeons with vacations, gifts and no-show consulting jobs in an effort to win their business. Manufacturers targeted include Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, Zimmer Holdings, Biomet, Stryker and Smith & Nephew. Federal prosecutors suggest that such payments constitute a kickback, as they're provided solely to buy …
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