Feb 6, 2008By: Jacob SullumReason.comHAYSVILLE, Kan. (AP) — Malpractice attorneys worked closely with federal prosecutors to help indict a Kansas doctor accused of illegally prescribing painkillers linked to the overdose deaths of 56 patients, attorneys acknowledged in interviews and in documents obtained by The Associated Press.While the malpractice attorneys contend their help wasn't improper, supporters [...]
Feb 6, 2008
By: Roxana Hegeman
The Associated Press
HAYSVILLE, Kan. (AP) — Malpractice attorneys worked closely with federal prosecutors to help indict a Kansas doctor accused of illegally prescribing painkillers linked to the overdose deaths of 56 patients, attorneys acknowledged in interviews and in documents obtained by The Associated Press [...]
Feb 6, 2008Author UnknownRedorbit.comPeople who suffer chronic pain have constant brain activity in areas of the brain that would normally be at rest, according to a new study at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. The study suggests chronic pain changes the way information is processed in the brain, and the findings could explain why [...]
Feb 1, 2008
Phil Smith
Stop the drug war.org
In a drama that has been played out all too many times across the country in recent years, the Justice Department’s campaign against prescription drug abuse — if you can call it that — came in crushing fashion to Haysville, Kansas, last month. Now, a popular pain management physician and his nurse wife are being held without bond and more than a thousand patients at his clinic are without a doctor, but the US Attorney and the Kansas Board of Healing Arts say they are protecting the public health [...]
