By Bari Siegel
Posted on 26 March 2013.
A new website allows you to type in your doctor’s name and determine if he or she is receiving extra money from big Pharma as an incentive to prescribe certain drugs. If you are interested in finding out click here http://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/states/new-jersey
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By Bari Siegel
Posted on 21 March 2013.
In WOS v. E.M.A., 568 U.S. ___ (March 20, 2013), the Supreme Court affirmed the Fourth Circuit’s ruling that North Carolina’s irrebuttable statutory presumption that 1/3 of a tort recovery was the amount due on state’s Medicaid subrogation claim was invalid under federal Medicaid anti-lien statute and the Court’s 2006 Ahlborn decision. In this […]
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By Bari Siegel
Posted on 22 February 2013.
Suit: Yoga Shouldn’t Be Taught in Calif. Schools A lawsuit has been filed against the Encinitas, Calif., public school district in an effort to half the teaching of yoga to elementary school kids. The lawsuit claims yoga “represents a religious indoctrination” and violates state law that prohibits religion from being taught in public schools. The […]
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By Bari Siegel
Posted on 15 October 2012. Tags: mesothelioma
All too often people who develop mesothelioma are diagnosed at an advanced stage and at a time when it is very difficult to provide treatment that presents any real hope of long term survival. I had many conversations with the late Dr. Irving Selikoff, the pioneeer, in this area, of the need for modern medicine […]
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By Bari Siegel
Posted on 12 September 2012. Tags: 911 Victims compensation fund
Braun: Sept. 11 ‘Jersey Girls’ mostly leave high-profile activism to others these days | NJ.com Like so many people in our area, the tragic events of 911 changed me forever. This past Sunday I read the article in the Star Ledger about the ” Jersey Girls.” I spent many days and nights with the “Jersey Girls“ in connection […]
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By Bari Siegel
Posted on 24 August 2012. Tags: food poisoning
In continuing coverage, the Wall Street Journal (8/24, A2, Tomson, Subscription Publication) reports that the Food and Drug Administration announced it has identified the Chamberlain Farms of Owensville, Indiana, as one source of the salmonella outbreak linked to cantaloupe, which has thus far, resulted in two deaths and at least 176 people becoming ill. […]
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