Consumer Watchdog Gives HMO Regulator 10 Days to Order Reinstatement of Patients Whose Policies Have Been Illegally Cancelled

SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog petitioned the state Department of Managed Health Care to announce within 10 days its plans regarding hundreds of patients who have been left uninsured, uninsurable, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical debt...

Cheap Indian Medicines Illegally Flooding Pak Markets

The illegal inflow of affordable Indian medicine into Pakistan is continuing unabatedly through green channels because of their huge price difference in the two countries. According to the Daily Times, passengers coming from India prefer carrying cheap drugs, as the prices of Indian drugs ...

Women, be on guard against illegally procured IUDs

The State Department of Health Services has issued a warning about substandard contraceptive devices given to many women by Doctors. State health officials have pinned// down nearly eight doctors for procuring intrauterine devices from unlicensed parties and Internet vendors. Dr. Mark Horton...

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro: Vytorin and Zetia Makers Settle Class-Action Suit With Proposed $41.5 Million

...itrust litigation; a $340 million recovery on behalf of Enron employees which is awaiting distribution; a $150 million settlement involving charges of illegally inflated charges for the drug Lupron, and served as co-counsel on the Visa/Mastercard litigation which resulted in a $3 billion settlement, the larges...

Nexicon Partners With IntentionQuest to Protect Intellectual Property Rights of Self Help Industry

...industries, software and games, publishing, ISPs, financial services and government. Its product line includes: DigitalRanger to identify those who illegally facilitate, promote, and profit from hosting or distributing copyrighted content; GetAmnesty that allows copyright holders to fight piracy and colle...

Health and Environmental Groups Announce Intent to Sue Illinois Coal Plant Owners for Violating Clean Air Act

...lition of Illinois health and environmental groups notified Midwest Generation, LLC of their intent to sue the company because its coal plants release illegally high amounts of particulate matter that leads to respiratory illnesses and premature deaths in nearby communities. The suit follows a number of air po...

Nexicon Technology to Protect Healthcare Industry

...ndustries, software and games, publishing, ISPs, financial services and government. It's product line includes: DigitalRanger to identify those who illegally facilitate, promote, and profit from hosting or distributing copyrighted content; GetAmnesty that allows copyright holders to fight piracy and colle...

Contemptible: Governor, State Officials Defy Court Order to Stop Home Care Cuts, Says SEIU

...ion (SEIU), which represents more than 200,000 California home care workers, filed a motion with U.S. District Court to hold the State in contempt for illegally cutting the wages of In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers by $2 per hour in defiance of an earlier court order. "It's unbelievable that the...

Schwarzenegger Administration Sued for Allowing Health Insurance Companies to Deny Autism Care

...also alleges that the DMHC and its Director Cindy Ehnes: illegally instituted a policy of denying ABA treatment on the ground that providers w...her provided or supervised by a licensed or certified professional. illegally withheld public documents properly requested under the California Public Re...

Record-Breaking Internet Pharmacy Prosecution Nets Millions for Iowa Law Enforcement

...ganizations that take advantage of the Internet to illegally sell prescription drugs," said Stuart Nash, Associ...ami Beach, Fla., each pled guilty to conspiring to illegally distribute prescription controlled substances and ...om pled guilty and were sentenced to conspiring to illegally distribute prescription controlled substances and ...

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Elephant-size loopholes sustain Thai ivory trade

... jewelry, belt buckles and knife-handles. Much of the ivory being worked is illegally imported from Africa. Some workshop owners boasted close ties with Euro... entertainment parks. Hundreds of live elephants are known to have been illegally imported from Myanmar in recent years, to be sold to elephant trekking comp...

Study: Illegal fishing harming present and future New England groundfish fisheries

... Center for Environmental Science and Dr. Jon Sutinen of the University of Rhode Island detail nearly a doubling of the percent of total harvest taken illegally over the last two decades in the Northeast multispecies groundfish fishery (NEGF). The study estimates the annual illegal harvest to be 12 to 24 perce...

Camphor-containing products may cause seizures in children

... about the hazards of camphor and to crack down on illegally marketed camphor products. Camphora naturally o...e community and indicate that inappropriate use of illegally sold camphor products is an important public healt...or-containing products and to stop them from being illegally sold." ...

Turtles no longer turned into souvenirs

...d hawksbill turtles are no longer being sold as tourist souvenirs in the Dominican Republic after a powerful government campaign cracked down on shops illegally trading such items. More than 99 percent of these souvenirs have been withdrawn or confiscated the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC reports. ...

Inmates conduct ecological research on slow-growing mosses

...dkarni's so-called Moss-in-Prisons project is designed to help ecologists replace large quantities of ecologically important mosses that are regularly illegally stripped from Pacific Northwest forests by horticulturalists. Why did Nadkarni recruit inmates into her research team? "Because," she explains, "I ...

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics celebrates 10th birthday by presenting major gifts to human health

...in encyclopaedia. Insulin, for instance, is a small protein that controls glucose levels in our blood. The performance-booster EPO is the protein used illegally by some cyclists. In the human body it takes many forms. But we detect its use in sport because competitors use a manufactured form which is not natur...

Entrust Expands Relationship with Slovenia, Implements Second-generation ePassport Solution

...ies, Slovenia continues to partner with Entrust to help prevent criminal organizations from accessing and using biometric information on ePassports to illegally cross borders." The terrorists of 9/11 used compromised passports to cross borders while traveling into the United States. The result was the need f...

Scientists find potential protein biomarkers for growth hormone

...search could be the first step to finding a more reliable way to detect recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH), which some athletes and teenagers use illegally to boost muscle and reduce fat. At the Endocrine Society annual meeting in San Francisco today, scientists John Kopchick and Juan Ding presented a...

Project succeeding to relocate Caspian terns

... comprises the terns' diet at Crump Lake. Most of the birds there are eating bullheads and the small, but abundant tui chubs the same species of fish illegally introduced into Diamond Lake, prompting state officials to poison the lake to get rid of them. Tui chubs are native to Crump Lake and provide a stable...

New CITES quotas allow more caviar export, further jeopardize endangered sturgeon

...urgeon expert with the Pew Institute for Ocean Science. "It is imperative that these tools be developed so that aquaculture doesn't become a cover for illegally acquired wild caviar." Dr. Doukakis is also a specialist in genetic regulation of the caviar trade. Caviar is a prized delicacy that can fetch more...

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Concerned Shareholders of Biovail seek court order declaring Biovail AGM illegally convened;

Say Biovail seeing tide changing against management - with six million votes revoked - and no quoroum at meeting, secretly met to change rules TORONTO, June 25 /PRNewswire/ - The Concerned Shareholders of Biovail (TSE:BVF) said that their lawyers will be in court today and will seek a decla...

Bio-Tech Medical Software, Inc. Biometrics Joins Forces with the University of Central Florida to Fight Diversion and Help Combat Prescription Narcotic Drug Abuse

...s to prevent identity fraud which is currently used to circumvent prescription monitoring programs in 32 other states, and preventing these drugs from illegally getting in the hands of drug seekers and dealers. Patients will not only benefit from faster access to their legitimate medications, but doctors and p...

Concerned Shareholders Respond to Biovail's Press Release

...less than 51% of Biovail's outstanding shares were represented at the meeting, and it is the current Board and management's fault that the meeting was illegally held, not Mr. Melynk's," said Mr. Brydon. "Furthermore, the status of the vote was much closer than Biovail indicated. A swing of approximately 9 mill...

File Swapping: Download at your own Risk

...uter's music and video files available for download by others unless you change the default setting. And, if you have not disabled sharing, you may be illegally distributing that music file." UW-Madison File-Sharing Policy The use of the network is a shared resource on campus and falls under the Guide...

Tech vendors could be liable for customer behavior - and not just file sharing

...hts. The case arose out of a lawsuit filed by MGM against Grokster and StreamCast for distributing file-sharing software which allowed its users to illegally share copyrighted movies owned by MGM. The lower courts originally found that Grokster and StreamCast could not be held liable for how the users of th...

Four ways lawmakers could help Wisconsins high-growth economy

...-2006 session of the Wisconsin Legislature wasn't formed on the Assembly or Senate floor, but in court, where a few former leaders were prosecuted for illegally using state resources for campaigns. Others might say this Legislature will be remembered for debating a steady diet of social issues, from carrying c...

Power services firm JT Packard isn't through growing

... UPS service space. UPS manufacturer MGE sued JT Packard and several other companies alleging copyright infringement, maintaining that JT Packard illegally used the proprietary software integrated into its UPS systems. "The service space for UPS systems has historically been dominated by manufacturers...

JT Packard exec resigns after settling copyright disputes

...ointed president of JT Packard. Packard was sued for copyright infringement by UPS manufacturer MGE , which claimed that the Wisconsin company had illegally used the proprietary software integrated into its UPS systems. Powerware , a UPS manufacturer owned by Eaton Corp. , also moved to protect propr...

Rockwell software thieves plead guilty

...copies of Rockwell Automation software will soon find out as they await sentencing after pleading guilty in the case. The men were prosecuted for illegally copying the software and selling it on the Internet auction site eBay at large discounts, according to an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel...