Medical practitioners and providers in the United States paid $26.8 billion over the past decade to settle federal allegations including fraud, bribery and patient harm, a Reuters investigation found. Paying up means staying in business and, for some, avoiding prison. U.S. prosecutors helped them do it, says Reuters report by Michael Berens. When federal enforcers alleged in 2015 that New York …
CANBERRA (Australia): Disposable vapes used by more than a million Australians will be banned under a major crackdown on vaping that aims to rid convenience store shelves of thousands of products, but the federal government will make it easier for people to vape with a doctor’s prescription. The Australian newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald printed the following news report: Health …
ISLAMABAD: U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Andrew Schofer; Federal Secretary at the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination, Dr. Muhammad Fakhre Alam Irfan; and Pakistani National Institute of Health Chief Executive Officer Ghazal Parveen inaugurated a U.S.-funded entomology laboratory today that will strengthen Pakistan’s ability to track and respond to vector-borne disease outbreaks. “The devastating 2022 floods …
PARKINSON'S | Catching it early.
ISLAMABAD (Pakistan): U.S. donations of COVID-19 vaccines to Pakistan surpassed 50 million doses this week, as Washington stood fast by its commitment to deliver life-saving vaccines to the people of Pakistan. “With the shipment of an additional 4.7 million Pfizer vaccine doses this week, U.S.-donated vaccines to Pakistan have now reached over 52 million,” said U.S. Embassy Islamabad’s Chargé d’affaires …
