Category: Public Health
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‘Con artist’ landed major no-bid COVID contract with DeSantis administration
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
The founder and head of a health-coaching company that inked an $11.3-million deal with the state of Florida to provide COVID-19 testing and supplies pleaded guilty to two felonies last year related to insurance-fraud schemes. -
How America Got Hooked On A Deadly Drug
By Fred Schulte
Kaiser Health News
Purdue Pharma left almost nothing to chance in its whirlwind marketing of its new painkiller OxyContin. From 1996 to 2002, Purdue pursued nearly every avenue in the drug supply and prescription sales chain — a strategy now cast as reckless and illegal in more than 1,500 federal civil lawsuits across the country. -
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First Amendment claims seen as Rx for drug makers, headache for consumers
By Paul Raeburn
FairWarning
Off-label promotion has long been considered a serious white-collar crime. The FDA has fined drug companies billions of dollars for off-label violations. The aim: to prevent them from overstating the benefits and understating the risks of their products, a practice known as misbranding – and one that sometimes leads to patients getting drugs that prove harmful or even deadly. -
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New lookup to tell what’s in your water in South Florida and around the country
By Dan Ross
FairWarning
Want to know what hazards might be lurking in your local water supply? An updated online database launched this week by the Environmental Working Group, a research and advocacy organization, provides some answers. -
Broward Health rattled by corruption probes, may seek a new way to govern itself
By Dan Christensen and Buddy Nevins
FloridaBulldog.org
“What a colossal mess!” That’s the opening salvo from the Miami-Dade County Grand Jury’s August 2010 report on ailing Jackson Memorial Hospital. The same could be said today of Broward Health. -
Broward continues to fail its mentally ill; The sad case of Broward’s ‘Forgotten Soldier’
By Owen Mcnamee and Douglas Brawley
Special to BrowardBulldog.org
Twenty years ago eighteen members of a Broward Grand Jury issued a scathing report that concluded the Broward County mental health system was underfinanced, fragmented and leaderless. They found the system was failing thousands of mentally ill and disabled persons and causing hundreds to wind up in jail or endure forced hospitalizations without needed treatment. Twenty years later, we are still failing this vulnerable population.
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