HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut officials are suing CVS/Pharmacy Inc., alleging it has sold food and over-the-counter medications past their expiration dates at many of its Connecticut stores. [widget:1111] Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell Jr. say investigators found expired cough and allergy medicines, dairy products, baby formula, and other products at 20 stores in the summers ...

Patients involuntarily detained in psychiatric hospitals last year received hundreds of treatments of electric shock therapy against their will. Official statistics compiled for the first time show that about 400 psychiatric patients received 2,700 electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatments during 2008. Of these, at least 43 involuntarily detained patients were either unable or unwilling to consent to about 300 doses of the ...

WASHINGTON - Federal health regulators are investigating reports of dangerous radiation levels at two more California hospitals, following earlier unsafe medical scans at a Los Angeles facility. The Food and Drug Administration is probing the use of CT scans at Glendale Adventist Medical Center and Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Calif. The brain scans are used to diagnose strokes. ...

An Oakland County doctor, a pharmacist and three others have been charged with running a prescription drug ring, according to a 43-count federal indictment unsealed Thursday in Detroit. Dr. Sohrab Shafinia, 49, an osteopath who lives in Keego Harbor, and Richard Riozzi, 41, of St. Clair Shores, a former pharmacist at SafeScript Pharmacy in Farmington Hills, are accused of conspiring to ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Four hospitals in New York state paid kickbacks to get more patients into their drug treatment programs, which billed Medicaid for services that weren't standard or necessary and lacked state certification, lawsuits allege. Another hospital paid people to search homeless shelters and other places for patients to enter a three-day stay in detox in exchange for cigarettes, ...

CHICAGO - A sperm donor passed on a potentially deadly genetic heart condition to nine of his 24 children, including one who died at age 2 from heart failure, according to a medical journal report. Two children, both now teenagers, have developed symptoms and are at risk for sudden cardiac death, the report says. It's the second documented instance of a ...

BOSTON - A man stabbed a doctor while being treated at a psychiatric office at a Boston medical building Tuesday and was fatally shot by an off-duty security guard who saw the attack, police said. The attack took place in the afternoon at a high-rise affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital. The female doctor, identified by hospital officials as Dr. Astrid Desrosiers, ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Raymond Clark III appeared in court and was charged with murder Thursday hours after his arrest in the killing of a graduate student whose body was found stuffed in the wall of the research building where they both worked. Raymond Clark III, 24, kept his head bowed during the three-minute appearance in the death of Annie Le, ...

AUSTIN, Texas – By the tens of thousands, Texas student-athletes have been pulled out of class to urinate in a cup for the nation's largest high school steroids testing program. Boys and girls in all sports, from football to tennis to cross country, have been randomly selected. The results so far have found little to confirm fears that steroid use is ...

Reputable U.S. medical centers transplant kidneys and other human organs they get illegally through the black market, a university anthropologist asserts. Surgeons take black-market kidneys from people in the world's most impoverished slums and put them into wealthy dialysis patients from the United States, Europe and Israel, Nancy Scheper-Hughes of the University of California at Berkeley told Newsweek. She did not ...

A former cardiology resident at Marshall University's medical school admitted in federal court Tuesday that he allowed staff at a Mingo County (South Carolina) pain clinic to illegally prescribe drugs under his name. John Theodore Tiano, 41, of Lost Creek, also acknowledged that he knew Justice Medical Complex billed Medicare for his medical services as a doctor, and received almost $120,000 ...

SAMAR KHEL, Afghanistan _ Wali Sultani has been chained to the wall of his cell for almost a month. He is wearing the same dirty clothes and he is eating the same diet every day _ bread, black pepper and water. Sultani, 25, is no criminal. He is mentally ill. Like almost everything else in war-torn Afghanistan, the mental health system ...

CORNETTSVILLE, Ky. - A patient charged with shooting a popular community doctor to death at a rural clinic hours after being denied narcotics pleaded not guilty Wednesday. John Combs, 46, was charged with murder and was held on $10 million bail in the death of Dr. Dennis Sandlin, 57. Authorities said Sandlin, who had worked at the clinic for almost two ...

DETROIT - Meijer Inc. will pay $3 million after the Midwest retail chain discovered it had employed four pharmacists who were barred from federal health programs, the government said Tuesday. The pharmacists worked at Meijer stores in Michigan and Ohio from 1997 to 2006 and had been barred from Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare, a military health plan. [widget:1111] Federal law prohibits ...

ALBANY, N.Y. - As the economy falters and more people go without health insurance, low-income women in at least 20 states are being turned away or put on long waiting lists for free cancer screenings, according to the American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network. In the unofficial survey of programs for July 2008 through April 2009, the organization found that state ...

Health insurance industry trade groups opposed to President Obama's health care reform bill are paying Facebook users fake money -- called "virtual currency" -- to send letters to Congress protesting the bill. Here's how it's happening: Facebook users play a social game, like "FarmVille" or "Friends For Sale." They get addicted to it. Eager to accelerate their progress inside the game, ...

CONCORD, N.H. - The anthrax spores that infected a New Hampshire woman are the same strain as spores found on an electrical outlet and two drums used at a gathering she attended in early December, medical investigators said. Test results received Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the match between the patient's strain and the contaminated items ...

LOS ANGELES - The executive director of a Northern California mental hospital was arrested Wednesday for investigation of molesting his foster child for more than a decade. Napa State Hospital Director Claude Edward Foulk, 62, was arrested at the hospital after a five-month investigation by Long Beach police. The hospital fired him after he was charged Tuesday with 35 felony counts, ...

BROCKTON, Mass. - A Massachusetts woman was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday in the fatal prescription drug overdose of her 4-year-old daughter. Carolyn Riley, 35, was accused of overmedicating her daughter, Rebecca, on powerful drugs prescribed by a psychiatrist who diagnosed her with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder by the time she was 3. Prosecutors said Riley and her ...

The National Practitioner Data Bank holds files on a whopping 237,000 physicians, considered "Dangerous" or "Questionable" by the Health Research Group. And we thought you might like to know how these nuts make the club.