Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and Chicago, has dismissed associate professor of medicine Nalini Rajamannan, MD, who in 2008 accused Northwestern Memorial Hospital's chief of cardiac surgery and heart program director of implanting an experimental device without obtaining the patient's…
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A Wisconsin physician has been accused of revealing a patient's HIV test results to the patient's mother without first obtaining consent, according to a Wisconsin State Journal report.
A Baltimore law firm lost the medical records of 161 patients suing cardiologist Mark G. Midei, MD, according to a York Daily Record report.
California Governor Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill that would have required healthcare facilities to obtain a new license if the facility experienced an ownership change or major change in ownership interest, according to a Sacramento Business Journal report.
A team of researchers has received a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute to study the ethical and legal implications of providing genetic research results, such as DNA test results,…
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New York Downtown Hospital has agreed to pay $13.4 million to settle charges of participation in a massive Medicaid scam, according to a New York Post report. The hospital and other medical facilities have been accused of illegally “recycling” hundreds…
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has sent a letter to HHS' Health Resources and Service Administration, criticizing its decision to restrict public access to the National Practitioner Data Bank, according to a report by the Association of Health Care Journalists.
Columbia University Medical Center in New York has agreed to settle a civil lawsuit brought against it by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District in New York in connection with billings to Medicare for urology services provided by…
Fremont, Calif.-based Scios, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has pleaded guilty to misbranding its heart failure drug Natrecor and will pay an $85 million criminal fine, according to a news release from the Department of Justice. Scios admitted that…
In a letter sent to the American Hospital Association, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) criticized the organization for lobbying lawmakers to cut Medicare benefits by increasing the eligibility age from 65 to 67.