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Another Doc Gets Prison Time in NJ Bribery Scheme
The investigation of now-defunct Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services has resulted in convictions for 38 physicians, in what is believed to be the largest number of medical professionals prosecuted in...
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Another Doc Imprisoned in Far-ranging NJ Bribery Scheme
The investigation has thus far resulted in 53 convictions – 38 of them doctors – in what is believed to be the largest number of medical professionals ever prosecuted in a bribery case.
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Three Docs Pay $700K to Settle False Claims Act Allegations
Federal prosecutors accused the three physicians in three states of Stark Act violations involving improper financial relationships with a now-defunct drug testing lab.
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Medical ethics expert: Trump's former doctor should lose license
On Tuesday, President Trump’s former doctor Harold Bornstein dropped a bit of a bombshell in a CNN interview, claiming that the glowing doctor note he wrote for then-candidate Trump in 2016 was...
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Individual benefit versus social responsibility
Brilinta, at $6.50 per pill, twice a day, reduces cardiovascular events more than generic Plavix (clopidogrel), which costs 50 cents per pill, once a day. But only by a little: a 20% relative or 2%...
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Medical Researchers Lag in Adopting Clinical Trial Requirements
A national survey finds that most academic research facilities were not in compliance with more vigorous, HHS-mandated clinical registration and reporting requirements.
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University of Illinois at Chicago Officials Defend Handling of Researcher's Misconduct
A tenured psychiatry professor violated terms of the federal research grant by testing lithium on children younger than 13 despite being told not to.
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Docs Who Accept Drug Companies' Money More Likely to Prescribe Their Drugs
Compared to physicians who receive no money, those who were paid for meals and lodging from drug makers had higher odds of prescribing that company's cancer drugs.
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What 7 Healthcare Execs Said About the HHS Freedom of Conscience Proposal
These comments were among tens of thousands submitted in response to the HHS Office for Civil Rights proposal to enhance protections for healthcare workers with conscientious objections.
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HHS Sees More Than 1,100 Comments Per Day on Conscience Rights Proposal
Tuesday is the deadline to comment on the proposed rule, which aims to enhance existing protections for healthcare workers who object to certain medical procedures.
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Research Misconduct Allegations Shadow Likely CDC Appointee
The former principal investigator over clinical trials of a treatment vaccine at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research faces accusations he mishandled HIV research.
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Women In Medicine Shout #MeToo About Sexual Harassment At Work
While the health care field overall has far more women than men, in many stations of power the top of the pyramid is overwhelmingly male, with women occupying the vast base.
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