- Camryn Hansen | May 27, 2012 5:00 AM | Cherry Hill, NJ
Category:
FDA & Prescription Drugs
For America’s pharmaceutical companies, committing fraud has become an established way of life. Practices like off-label marketing and price inflation are not only rampant, they bring...
- Mike Ferrara | November 18, 2010 3:50 PM | Cherry Hill, NJ
Category:
Medical Malpractice
According to a report released earlier this week by the Department of Health and Human Services, one out of every seven hospitalized Medicare patients is harmed by some type of medical...
- Mike Ferrara | March 04, 2009 5:01 PM | Cherry Hill, NJ
Category:
FDA & Prescription Drugs
On behalf of the United States Senate Committee on Finance, who controls funding for Medicare and Medicaid, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote a letter to drug giant Pfizer yesterday...
- Camryn Hansen | February 27, 2009 10:47 PM | Cherry Hill, NJ
Category:
Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
Among the midnight regulations the Bush administration enacted swiftly and secretively last fall before its power ran out was a rule which is now greatly impeding the flow of information in cases...
- Mike Ferrara | December 26, 2008 7:56 PM | Cherry Hill, NJ
Category:
Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
At medicare.gov, you can now read US government reports of nursing home inspections all across the country.
On the Medicare website, you can type in the name of a specific nursing home, find all...
- Mike Ferrara | September 17, 2008 8:34 PM | Cherry Hill, NJ
Category:
Miscellaneous
A new online study tracking patients after they have left
the emergency room shows that a gross majority of patients are not getting the help
they need to give themselves proper home care....
- Mike Ferrara | September 02, 2008 3:31 PM | Cherry Hill, NJ
Category:
Medical Malpractice
Charging patients for the extra care they receive due to
egregious medical errors has come under fire in recent months, as more and more
hospitals implement voluntary policies of not billing for...