May 28, 2008By: Steve PhillipsWLOX (MS)BILOXI (WLOX)– Many people in the local Vietnamese community are shocked and saddened over the arrests of two doctors and a pharmacist, who are accused of illegally distributing prescription narcotics.Patients of Dr. Thomas Trieu and his wife, Dr. Victoria Van, say the family doctors they know are caring people who [...]
May 2008By:Jim GilesNewScientist.comBeen patronised or fobbed off by your doctor? It may have made you angry, but hopefully not angry enough to want to kill them.Yet it turns out that the urge is not uncommon, especially among patients who are in pain, undergoing physical rehabilitation or seeking legal compensation for disability.David Fishbain and colleagues at [...]
May 22, 2008By: Steve PhillipsWLOX (MS)BILOXI (WLOX)– Many people in the local Vietnamese community are shocked and saddened over the arrests of two doctors and a pharmacist, who are accused of illegally distributing prescription narcotics.Patients of Dr. Thomas Trieu and his wife, Dr. Victoria Van, say the family doctors they know are caring people who [...]
Jun 8, 2008
By: Gardiner Harris and Benedict Carey
The New York Times
A world-renowned Harvard child psychiatrist whose work has helped fuel an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines in children earned at least $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007 but for years did not report much of this income to university officials, according to information given Congressional investigators[...]
Jun 6, 2008
By: Roxana Hegeman
The Associated Press
WICHITA - Federal prosecutors told a federal judge on Wednesday that the government was investigating more allegations of health care fraud at a Kansas “pill mill” already linked to 56 overdose deaths[...]
Jun 3, 2008By: Jeanine BencaValley TimesBy next year, California health workers may be able to check any patient's prescription drug history with the click of a mouse.There has been a four-year effort to create an online databank to crack down on doctor-shopping by narcotics abusers, and today, state Attorney General Jerry Brown is expected to [...]
