Medicare Office details rampant home health care fraud
Investigators told Congress that fraud in home health care across California Illinois New York and Texas may be widespread nationwide. A GAO report says forty percent of visits in four states were improperly paid and a quarter of providers in those states plus Florida abused Medicare funds.
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Congress
George F. Grob
Health and Human Services Department
Senate Aging Committee
California
Ilinois
New York
Texas
Medicare
General Accounting Office
HHS
Florida
Chuck Grassley
B-rown
Clinton
Barnwell Bicycle Safety Rodeo And Community Safety Events
Rural Metro Ambulance of Barnwell hosts a bicycle safety rodeo from 2 to 5 p.m. on August 9 at the Barnwell Wal-Mart with safety education, a repair shop, and 30 helmets for the first 30 children. Lions Club broom sale supports sight charity and conservation work. prices range from 6 to 89 dollars. Aiken Red Cross lists CPR and first aid classes on multiple dates with limited enrollment at the Laurens Street office.
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Metro
Barnwell
Barnwell Wal-Mart
Red Cross
Aiken Red Cross
Laurens Street
Gene may separate righties and lefties
Frederick Maryland geneticist Amar Klar argues a single gene may determine handedness. He reports 82 percent have at least one copy and are right handed while 18 percent lack the gene with half of them right handed and half left or ambidextrous. The study connects genetics to womb development and cites Cold Spring Harbor work.
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Frederick
Amar JS. Klar
Klar
National Cancer Institute
Klar's
Cold Spring Harbor
Bruce Stillman
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Ira Perelle
Mercy College
Dobbs Ferry
N.Y
Caregiver Support Group For Disabled Children Meets
caretakers are invited to a support group hosted by DHEC and Aiken Mental Health Association for parents and caretakers of children with physical disabilities chronic illness or developmental delays. Aug 12 features Norman Frank from the Social Security Administration. Sept 9 will host Constance Shepherd from the Mental Health Association. Meetings are at 11 am on the second Tuesday each month in Room 3 at First Presbyterian Church with light lunch and free child care.
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DHEC
Aiken Mental Health Association
Norman Frank
Social Security Administration
Constance Shepherd
The
Mental Health Association
First Presbyterian Church
Scientists find flaw in AIDS drug AZT mechanism
Researchers in Germany report AZT activation in human cells is limited by a bottleneck with a second enzyme, caused by AZT’s protruding finger misaligning a loop. The finding could guide new drugs or altered enzymes to improve HIV treatment, while Glaxo Wellcome remains cautiously skeptical.
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New York
Cient
Nature Medicine
Nature Structural Biology
Ramona Jones
Glaxo Wellcome Inc
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