Large U.S. Drug Wholesaler To Pay $151 Million To Settle Claims
July 31, 2012
McKesson Corp., a large drug wholesaler in the United States, has agreed to pay $151 million to the District of Columbia and 29 U.S. states in order to settle claims that it inflated the prices of certain prescription medications that resulted in overpayments of millions of dollars in reimbursemen[...]
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Judge Orders FDA To Turn Over Documents In Spying Case
July 27, 2012
On July 23, 2012, a federal judge ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to turn over previously undisclosed documents to attorneys for former and current employees of the FDA who claim that the FDA illegally spied on them after they reported allegedly improper medical device approvals by t[...]
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Texas Theft Of Nursing Home Medications
July 25, 2012
A certified medication aide at a Texas nursing home who had worked at the nursing home since December, 2010 has been charged with stealing medications intended for nursing home patients and giving them to her common-law husband to sell. It is alleged that the woman would document in the nursing ho[...]
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New Hampshire Med Tech Charged In Hep C Outbreak
July 22, 2012
A traveling contract medical techician (“med tech”) had his career abruptly ended after being accused of causing a hepatitis C outbreak involving 31 patients over the period of a few months in a New Hampshire hospital. He was arrested and charged on July 19, 2012. Prior to his employme[...]
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