Employees who take off work for major illnesses are at increased risk for death, new research suggests. The exception, however, is absences due to musculoskeletal disease, which show no association with mortality. Reuters Health Information
A study shows that implementation of various simple interventions decreases narcotic-related adverse drug events in hospitalized children. Medscape Medical News
A measure boosting insurance coverage for mental illness and treatment of drug and alcohol addiction secured final U.S. congressional passage on Friday as part of financial industry bailout legislation. Reuters Health Information
Although not always politically correct, this emergency medicine physician has a lot to say about the way medicine is practiced today. Medscape Med Students
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday sought to deflect criticism of a planned increase in mandatory contributions to state healthcare providers by pledging to trim unemployment benefit levies. Reuters Health Information
A former employee of a Wellcare Health Care Plans Inc subsidiary pleaded guilty to defrauding the Florida Medicaid program out of more than $20 million, prosecutors said on Monday. Reuters Health Information
The United States has joined a whistle-blower lawsuit against McKesson Corp and other companies accused of submitting false claims to Medicare, the Justice Department said on Monday. Reuters Health Information
Eli Lilly and Co has agreed to pay $62 million to settle claims that it improperly marketed its top-selling Zyprexa schizophrenia drug to patients who were not approved users, the company said on Tuesday. Reuters Health Information
The FDA has cleared the NeuroStar TMS brain-stimulating device for treating depressed adults for whom one antidepressant has failed to work. WebMD Health News
