Los Alamos (CA) – U.S. Forest Service officials and Los Angeles County public health have closed off the Los Alamos Campground in the Angeles National Forest after a California ground squirrel that was captured two weeks ago tested positive for plague. Plague is a bacterial disease found in wild rodents that can be transmitted to [...]
NEW YORK – Takeru Kobayashi , a Japanese hot dog eating champion was arrested this past Sunday in Brooklyn NY at the annual Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest. Kobayashi who currently lives in NY had been banned from the contest due to a contract dispute with Major League Eating (the fast food equivalent [...]
JOLIET, Ill. – One Clifton Williams back in 2009 was sentenced to 21 days in jail for contempt of court. His crime? Yawning and stretching in a court room while his cousin was being sentenced for a drug charge. Perhaps he was overdoing it and may even have deserved a day or two in jail [...]
A new study presented today at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy’s 22nd Annual Meeting finds that one in six cancer patients with high out-of-pocket (OOP) costs abandons their medication. The study by Prime Therapeutics (Prime), a thought leader in pharmacy benefit management, found patients with an OOP cost greater than $200 were at least [...]
Saint Michael’s Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey, has turned to IBM for real-time tracking of medical equipment to ensure that life saving medical devices are instantly available and expertly maintained. As healthcare systems become smarter, complex medical and diagnostic equipment that provides vast amounts of data are moving closer to the patient. However, with [...]
Miami residents Jose and Denise Martinez were each sentenced today to three years in prison for their role in running a Canton, Mich.,-based drug infusion clinic designed to defraud Medicare, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS). U.S. District Court Judge Victoria Roberts also ordered Jose and Denise Martinez to pay [...]
Beginning this fall, colleges in southeastern Pennsylvania will have more choices available to offer their students quality, affordable, comprehensive health care coverage with the launch of the Independence Blue Cross Student PPO plan. “We are very excited about our ability to offer this new Student PPO plan,” says Daniel Hilferty, president of health markets for [...]
The nation’s teen birth rate declined 2% in 2008, according to data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. After declining every year between 1991 and 2005, the teen birth rate increased 5% between 2005 and 2007 and is now on the decline again. The teen birth [...]
U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today issued the following statement: “I am deeply disappointed that the Senate was prevented from taking action on legislation to extend funding for unemployment insurance and the COBRA subsidy. There is no room for partisan roadblocks when Americans are depending on their government’s action and the stakes are [...]
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan president and CEO Daniel J. Loepp issued the following statement today in reaction to the announced sale of the nonprofit Detroit Medical Center to Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanguard Health Systems, a for-profit enterprise. “While we welcome investment in Detroit and the opportunity for the DMC to improve its facilities and [...]
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