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iPod Repair Site Eases Scam Worries with Unexpected Announcements

The iPod repair website ipodjuice.com puts scam concerns to rest by improving visibility into and communication with their growing iPhone repair operation. San Antonio, Texas (PRWEB) June 5, 2009 -- The iPod repair and iPhone repair website ipodjuice.com has several new...

Jury Convicts Two Doctors and Two Medical Assistants in $5.3 Million Medicare Fraud Scam

WASHINGTON, March 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A federal jury in Miami today convicted two physicians and two medical assistants in connection with a $5.3 million Medicare fraud scheme, Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita M. Glavin of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta...

New Book Reveals Decades-Long Food Safety PR Scam

WASHINGTON, June 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As government authorities reel from a record breaking year of food recalls and a new nationwide Salmonella outbreak, a new book brings to light the science -- and the politics -- behind food irradiation, a misguided technology being promoted by th...

Rent-A Body Scam Busted

Three American doctors have been arrested by the California Department of Insurance and the Orange County District Attorney's Office for medical fraud. These three are being accused of performing unnecessary surgical procedures and fraudulently billing more than $30 million to insurance compa...

Compensation Demanded For Bengal's Blood Scam Victims

India's largest patients' rights body led by US-based AIDS researcher Kunal Saha has demanded compensation for the hundreds of thousands of people in West Bengal who are// feared to have received HIV contaminated blood as a result of faulty blood-test kits purchased by the state government. The...

Hospitals Health Insurance Scam Uncovered

The Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) found that hospitals had overcharged their patients for health insurance coverage.// It had received a total of 11,139 complaints last year from patients who doubted their medical fees were right. Following this they analyzed medical institutions' req...

US Psychiatrist Suspended from Practicing Medicine for Involvement in Doping Scam

Four years after a huge doping scam burst into the open in Paris, Dr. Brian Halevie-Goldman, a San Francisco psychiatrist has been suspended for three months by the// Californian state authorities. Dr.Goldman was then the medical director of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative that allegedly...

Ten Accused On Allergy Shot Scam

Ten people including four doctors have been accused of cheating insurance companies for more than $1.5 million. This group was involved in giving allergy shots to many// patients without conducting proper tests and in unhygienic conditions. Patients were also not informed about the risk factors...

Accused Arrested in Blood Test Kit Scam

Kolkata: Ghanshyam Sarda, a prime accused in the expired blood test kit scam was arrested here Thursday, said a senior police official.// "We have arrested Ghanshyam Sarda from Kolkata airport. He will now be produced in court," said Gyanwant Singh, deputy commissioner of police (detective de...

Hail the Tamiflu and Shun the Scam

New Zealand’s broiler poultry flock escapes the deadly avian influenza virus while plans are in place to vaccinate the native birds if there is an outbreak// of the dangerous form of bird flu. Dr. Thonton said that other bird species were being checked for evidence of infection with the avian influ...

Aventis Pharmaceutical to Pay U.S. $95.5 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations

...any more for pharmaceutical products than they should under the law." "We will continue to be vigilant in investigating and prosecuting those who scam the Medicaid system - a system that is meant to benefit the poor," said Michael K. Loucks, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. "Wh...

BioTech Firm Decodes Current Swine Flu BioMarkers

...ernment controlled forced vaccinations and reportedly scarce antibiotics. Many people have questioned this reported swine flu outbreak. Is it a scam or a slam on the intelligence of the American public? "BioAcoustically Speaking" the body can diagnose and prescribe for itself. Without t...

Sambazon, World Leader in Acai, Stands up for the Amazonian Fruit's True Nutritional Properties

...factual acai nutrition information in light of current false claims by acai scam campaigns and consumer watchdog organizations alike. Acai, an Amazon p...on. "It's a shame that the extravagant and unfounded claims made by illegal scam businesses are undermining the public's understanding of the true benefits ...

AMA Announces Physician Class-Actions Against Aetna and CIGNA

...ent investigation launched by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo found that the Ingenix data is intentionally manipulated to allow health plans to scam physicians by shortchanging reimbursements on medical bills. "Through our lawsuits, the AMA and our partner medical societies seek to reform the ...

Major Retailers Experience 161% Increase in Attempted Hacker Attacks, According to SecureWorks

...pon offers sent via e-mail -- these often have malicious links within the offer which lead to downloads of info-stealing trojans or the hackers try to scam you out of your bank account information. 2. When visiting your favorite online retailer to purchase gifts, be sure to type the actual Web sit...

Home Medical Equipment Providers Are Appalled by 'Dead-Doctor' Scam, Strongly Support Anti-Fraud Efforts to Protect Medicare System

...-USNewswire/ -- Durable medical equipment manufacturers and providers are just as appalled as lawmakers and Medicare officials at the revelations that scam artists used identification numbers from deceased doctors to bilk millions of dollars from the Medicare system. The medical equipment providers and ma...

Celebrities & Experts Join Forces to Help Prevent Elder Abuse by Giving Tips on Finding the Best Elder Care: World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, June 15, 2008

...y one-eighth of the U.S. population, yet they constitute one of every three scam victims," says Sid Kirchheimer, an advisor to AARP. Telephone ploys, identi...ng the elderly: Predatory caregivers and crooked conservators -- Financial scam artists -- Neglectful nursing homes and generations living together -- Da...

Uninsured Massachusetts Consumer Who Cannot Afford Mandatory Purchase of Health Insurance Flies 3,000 Miles to Speak Out; Is Thrown Out Of Capitol By Speaker Nunez

...h our government would stop catering to the private insurance industry and calling it universal health care. It's not, and the biggest victims of this scam are the middle class." The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) is California's leading public interest watchdog. For more informati...

NHCAA Presents 2007 Fraud 'Investigation of the Year' Award to U.S. Departments of Justice, HHS, and Treasury for Convicting Internet Pharmacy 'Drug Kingpin'

... Christopher William Smith Illegally Dispensed $24 Million Worth of Prescription Drugs Through Rogue Internet Pharmacy Racket Internet Pharmacy scam Funded Luxury Lifestyle, Including Seven Convertibles, Four Stretch Limousines & Maybach 62 ANAHEIM, Calif., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The...

Defective HIV Testing Kits Poses Serious Health Risks

...ng kits being distributed in India. Now he is all set to expose the scam after having obtained permission from the bank to go public with the findin...have found," Saha said. In West Bengal, a huge dud HIV testing kit scam was exposed in October 2006, pointing fingers at senior health officials. ...

Army Training Regimen Brutal in US, Needs Overhauling

... Two months after the Walter Reed Army Medical Center scam broke out, soul searching questions are raised across the US over the way ...e didn't die, though. The Washington Post's expose of the Walter Reed scam included the story of Cpl. Jeremy Harper, 19, who had seen three of his bud...

Beware Weight Loss Drugs, Say Canadian Experts

...ascular obesity research and management. "Treating the disease has to be up to (health) professionals, not up to people who could be selling a scam or selling products that are dubious in terms of safety," he said. Many of the active ingredients in over-the-counter weight-loss supplements ...

Bio-fuels Would Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Says Senior British Scientists

...ronmental technology and a member of the Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) advisory council has said, Biodiesel is a complete scam because in the tropics the growing demand is causing forests to be burnt to make way for palm oil and similar crops.He is expected to tell a seminar T...

180 dubious employees given the pink slip

... Close on the heels of a recruitment scam in the Health Department of the MCD, nearly 180 employees who had sought dubious means to secure a job, were under the axe. // The Health Depart...

Prime Suspect Apprehended in AIIMS Question Paper Leak

...ven Government officials. Based on the information provided by the four apprehended suspects the CBI expects to close in on the others involved in the scam too. ...

Raids Conducted In Hospitals And Pharmaceutical Companies

... The CBI officials feels that many doctors, top officials in the Ministry of Health and various Pharmaceutical companies are involved in the equipment scam and case of criminal conspiracy and cheating has been registered against them. ...