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Inspections fail to halt flow of billions of doses of tainted and flawed drugs

Even as Big Pharma launched the new year with yet another round of profiteering price hikes for prescription medications, a new investigation has uncovered how drug makers get away with nasty manufacturing practices, which, combined with lax oversight, send billions … Continue reading

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JBS Salmonella Tainted Beef Sickens 333 People – 91 Hospitalized

An additional 87 ill people from 16 states were included in this investigation since the last update on November 15, 2018. States with newly reported illnesses include: Michigan, Mississippi, and West Virginia. As of December 12, 2018, 333 people infected … Continue reading

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Mayor Says NYCHA is Making Progress Repairing Lead Tainted Apartments

Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke in defense of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) saying the city agency is making progress repairing deteriorating apartments in public housing developments. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, prosecutors in … Continue reading

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Tainted Review

In June, former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Scott Pruitt issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking calling for comments on a potential action with the purported goal of “increasing consistency and transparency in considering costs and … Continue reading

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Capitation Payments Aside, Transactions Between Government-Sponsored Managed Care Plans and Their Providers or Suppliers, Tainted by ‘Kickbacks,’ Are a Potential False Claims Act Violation, Says Court

Earlier this month, the federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, in U.S. ex rel. Derrick v. Roche Diagnostics Corp., sustained a whistleblower, or qui tam, complaint under the False Claims Act filed by a discharged employee of … Continue reading

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