Author: Erin Elizabeth

The Justice Department just announced that federal prosecutors are charging 60 doctors, pharmacists, medical professionals and others in connection with alleged opioid pushing and health care fraud. In total,31 doctors, seven pharmacists, eight nurse practitioners, and seven other licensed medical professionals were charged. “The cases involve more than 350,000 prescriptions for controlled substances and more than 32 million pills — the equivalent of a dose of opioids for “every man, woman and child,” across Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and West Virginia.”1 These charges come less than four months after the Justice Department dispatched experienced fraud prosecutors across hard-hit regions...

Assemblyman Pat Burke (D-Buffalo) of Buffalo, NY has introduced a bill that would “automatically register residents 18 and older as organ and tissue donors unless they choose to opt out of the registry.”1 (The state of New York currently has the third highest need for organ donors in the U.S. and the second lowest percentage of enrollment.) RELATED STORY: Australians will automatically have their organs donated after they die under a new proposal The proposed legislation would leave a space on driver’s license applications for people to opt out if they wished and would still allow 16- and 17-year-olds to register...