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Infectious Disease Physician’s License Suspended for Illegal Kickback

New York State Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines, MD, has used his emergency powers to summarily suspend the license of a Brooklyn physician who allegedly conspired to pay kickbacks and rebates to Medicaid patients in order to obtain medications. A summary suspension ...More
March 23, 2010
Posted in News
Meningitis in Oklahoma: Health Department Update

Oklahoma state and county health officials are at the Oologah-Talala lower elementary school again today after several cases of meningococcal disease occurred in students who attend the school.Health officials will offer, with parental consent, antibiotics as a preventive ...More
March 12, 2010
Posted in News
Federal Funds Support Health Departments but Leadership is Key

By Amy Patterson NeubertThe surge of funds for bioterrorism preparedness over the past decade does not appear to be improving local public health resources in general, according to research from Purdue University. However, the funding increase to health departments does ...More
March 9, 2010
Posted in News
FDA Issues Update on Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak Investigation

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, continues to work closely with the Rhode Island Department of Health and other states ...More
February 18, 2010
Posted in News
Health Departments Get Mixed Marks for Communicating About Flu

State and local health departments get mixed marks for efforts to convey information about the H1N1 virus to the public using their Web sites immediately after U.S. officials declared a public health emergency in April, according to a new RAND Corporation study.While 46 of ...More
July 7, 2009
Posted in News
Outbreak of Severe Diarrheal Illness Investigated by Oklahoma Department of Health

The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) reports today that laboratory analysis of water samples taken from a private well on the property of the Country Cottage restaurant in Locust Grove, Okla., has found no disease-causing bacteria. The restaurant has been ...More
September 2, 2008
Posted in News