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United States Files Complaint Against Forest Laboratories for Allegedly Violating the False Claims Act

Pharmaceutical Company Allegedly Marketed Drugs for Unapproved Pediatric Use and Paid Kickbacks WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Complaint was unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts against a New York pharmaceutical company for alleged False Claims Act vio...

Suspected AIDS Patient Allegedly Killed by In-laws

Bhubaneswar: A woman in Orissa suspected of having contracted AIDS was allegedly beaten to death by her in-laws, police said Sunday.// Sabita Behera, 30, a resident of Keutunga village in Puri district, 50 km from here, was allegedly murdered because the in-laws suspected she was an AIDS pati...

CryoLife Reports Record Quarterly Revenues of $28.2 Million

...t valve post-clearance study requested by the FDA may not provide the expected positive results, our products and tissues we process and preserve have allegedly caused and may in the future cause injury to patients, and we have been and may be exposed to tissue processing and product liability claims and addit...

New Evidence that Bush Administration Impeded 3 Investigations into Alleged Massacre of Up to 2,000 Prisoners in Afghanistan

...the Dasht-e-Leili desert near Sheberghan, Afghanistan. Notorious Afghan warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who was reportedly on the CIA payroll, is allegedly responsible for the massacre. Physicians for Human Rights, which shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, first documented the existence of the alleged...

Diets bad for the teeth are also bad for the body

...ats were considered the evil food. A high-carbohydrate diet was assumed to prevent a number of systemic chronic diseases. Unfortunately, such a diet - allegedly good for systemic health - was bad for dental health. As a result, cavities or gingival bleeding from fermentable carbohydrates could be avoided only ...

New York Law Firm Files Lawsuit Against Manufacturer of Zicam Nasal Spray and Drugstore Chain That Sold Product

... negligence of others. The firm is well-known for its successful litigation in a wide range of personal injury and products liability cases involving allegedly defective drugs, including headline-grabbing matters against Pfizer, Merck and other leading pharmaceutical companies. For more information abou...

Jury Convicts Los Angeles Physician Assistant for Stealing Doctor's Identity and Defrauding Medicare in $7.7 Million Scheme

...the evidence presented at trial, Bradshaw worked as a licensed physician assistant at a Los Angeles clinic, Glenmountain Medical Group (Glenmountain), allegedly under the supervision of a doctor. Evidence at trial established that from approximately April 2005 to April 2008, Bradshaw prescribed hundreds of mo...

Miami Physician Sentenced to 97 Months in Prison for Role in $10 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

...admitted that he purchased only a small fraction of the drugs that were purportedly administered to patients at the clinic. Most of the services allegedly provided to patients at Midway were billed to the Medicare program as treatments for thrombocytopenia, a disorder involving a low count of platelets i...

Appeals Court OKs Multimillion-Dollar Judgment for Dallas Doctor

...concerns about the company's billing practices. Although Pinnacle advertised itself as being "in-network" for all major health care plans, the company allegedly adopted a business plan of intentionally being "out-of-network." By billing out-of-network, Pinnacle made more money than it would have by matching pa...

Eight Miami-Area Residents Charged in $22 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme Involving Home Health Care Agencies

...a. In addition, that temporary restraining order also freezes certain financial assets of four other companies the defendants owned or controlled and allegedly used to launder money fraudulently obtained from Medicare. The temporary restraining order is intended to preserve the remaining proceeds of the frau...

Allegedly in Medical Technology

Coalition for 21st Century Medicine Issues Statement in Opposition of Genentech Petition to Restrict Lab Use of Diagnostic Tests for Physicians and Patients

... Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over that type of misconduct, as do the existing state agencies that regulate laboratories. Concerns about allegedly inaccurate statements can be readily -- and efficiently -- addressed within the existing regulatory framework. The petition entirely ignores that...

Resveratrol Longevity Science Makes Dramatic U-Turn, But Resveratrol Supplements Remain Unchanged

...re/ -- While the red wine molecule resveratrol (rez-vair-ah-trawl) has recently attracted scientific and public attention as a longevity molecule that allegedly mimics the effects of a calorie-restricted diet, the science surrounding this molecule has taken a dramatic turn in recent months, according to Bill S...

Arizona Heart Hospital Reaches Settlement Regarding Clinical Research Matter

...tain endoluminal graft devices (utilized to treat aneurysms) that had not received final marketing approval from the Food and Drug Administration, and allegedly were either implanted without an approved investigational device exception (IDE) or were implanted outside of the approved IDE protocol. The DOJ's all...

Allegedly in Medical Dictionary

Fracture

... Fracture Video Game - Reviews, Trailers, and Interviews For Fracture . Anthony Hopkins stars in this legal thriller as Ted Crawford, a man who allegedly attempted to murder his wife and is now locked in a battle of wits with an assistant... Fracture for Xbox 360 - GameSpot offers reviews, preview...

Allegedly in Biological News

Evolution and climate change research advances at Rutgers-Camden

...for 10 years studying ice worms. The mass of the glaciers is about half of what it was a decade ago." Disappointed, Shain didn't find new specimens allegedly living in Eldridge Glacier. Even the glaciers he previously identified as housing a plethora of ice worms had sadly receded. "The number of ice w...

Eating less may not extend life

... is better to skip the double cheeseburger than to turn up the treadmill after binging at Carl's Jr. Sohal's study is not the first to question the allegedly universal benefits of caloric restriction. A study by Ross et al. published in Nature in 1976 ("Dietary practices and growth responses as predictors o...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 28, 2008

...and beverage bottles, BPA has come under increasing scrutiny by Congress, regulators in the U.S. and abroad, the news media, and other groups over its allegedly harmful health effects. Written by C&EN Associate Editor Britt Erickson, the story points out that retailers and manufacturers alike are not waiti...

Cloning the smell of the seaside

...author of 'Tarka the Otter'. A more controversial figure from Siffkey's past was its rector, Rev Harold Davidson, who was defrocked in 1932 after allegedly 'cavorting with' London prostitutes. He later joined a circus and died after being mauled to death by a lion in Skegness. The UEA scientists are hopin...

A human taste for rarity spells disaster for endangered species

...t notorious illegal egg collector, died after falling from a 12-meter tree, allegedly while hunting a rare egg. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds est...pitate the anthropogenic Allee effect. Hobby collections of the sort Watson allegedly gave his life for top their list. Overhunting for food and feathers pushed ...

Allegedly in Biological Technology

CryoLife Reports Record First Quarter Revenues of $26.7 Million

...t valve post-clearance study requested by the FDA may not provide the expected positive results, our products and tissues we process and preserve have allegedly caused and may in the future cause injury to patients, and we have been and may be exposed to tissue processing and product liability claims and addit...

Viroblock SA Reports Positive Results of Preclinical Studies in Antiviral Nasal Spray

...depletion technology shows no toxicity at the dosage we tested thus far and allegedly limits the development of any viral resistance, and makes it effective on a...blocking virus transmission technology. Its patented VCCD technology allegedly inactivates all families and strains of enveloped viruses, like human and a...

Biotechnology Value Fund Urges Stockholders to Remove and Replace Current Board of Avigen, Inc. in an Effort to Protect and Maximize Stockholder Value

...y's Remaining Cash In a shameless example of protecting their own self-interest, in October 2008 Avigen increased its golden parachute payments, allegedly to attract and retain executive talent. Our first question is: which executive employees does Avigen need to retain when, in our view, Avigen does not...

CryoLife Reports Record Annual Revenues of $105.1 Million for FY 2008

...erGraft post-clearance study requested by the FDA may not provide the expected positive results, our products and tissues we process and preserve have allegedly caused and may in the future cause injury to patients, the possibility that the FDA could impose additional restrictions on the Company's operations, ...

CryoLife's Earnings Per Share Increased 180 Percent to $0.14 in Second Quarter of 2008 from $0.05 in Second Quarter of 2007

...new or existing customers, we are reliant on one supplier for significant components of BioGlue, our products and tissues we process and preserve have allegedly caused and may in the future cause injury to patients, pending or future litigation cannot be settled on terms acceptable to the Company, the Company ...

Weitz & Luxenberg Files Seroquel Diabetes Lawsuit Against AstraZeneca

... a lawsuit today against pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca on behalf of a New York City Fire Department Emergency Medical Technician whose diabetes was allegedly caused by AstraZeneca's drug Seroquel. The plaintiff, EMT Ernest Armstead, was one of the many brave responders on the morning of September 11, 2001. ...

CryoLife to Distribute FDA-approved Hemostatic Agent Under Private Label

...-clearance study requested by the FDA may not provide the expected positive results, that the Company's products and the tissues the Company processes allegedly have caused and may in the future cause injury to patients and the Company has been and may be exposed to product liability claims and additional regu...

Life Sciences Industry Reaches Crossroad Say Noted Pillsbury Attorneys

... industry. Among other investigations, the FTC is exploring the competitive implications of deals in which brand-name pharmaceutical companies allegedly collaborated with their generic drug rivals to delay the introduction of discount alternative products after hard-won patents expire. -- Prop...

WARF sues Samsung over computer chip technology license agreement

...g Electronics Co. , the world's largest maker of computer memory chips, for allegedly using a patented technology developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison fa...John Wiley and engineering professor John H. Perepezko. Sony and Toshiba allegedly used the computer chip technology in PlayStation 2 game stations. The sui...

The quest for the perfect headset

...he alleged victim in the Kobe Bryant case could affect the outcome of the trial. A judge ordered her cell phone company to hand over messages that she allegedly sent a few hours after her meeting with Bryant. This should send an alarm to companies that offer text messaging on company cell phones. What this cas...

Allegedly in Biological Definition

Genetic fingerprinting

...ous in the United States in 1994 when prosecutors heavily relied on and through expert witnesses exhaustively presented and explained DNA evidence allegedly linking O. J. Simpson to a double murder. In June of 2003 , because of new DNA evidence, Dennis Halstead, John Kogut and John Restivo won a re...

Nutrition

...lar to the US ones and are published in "Canada's Food Guide". Both dietary guidelines are horribly outdated and are fundamentally flawed because they allegedly serve the interests of the food industry. ( See Wall Street Journal reference ). Detailed information on general nutrition is available from the Depa...

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

...nerable to similar allegations. Natural healing professionals often recommend 5-HTP supplements instead of standard SSRI/MAOI prescriptions as 5-HTP allegedly accomplishes the same goal without resorting to disturbing the brain's natural metabolic procedures. Instead of interrupting the recycling of serotoni...