U.S. to announce medical device implant fraud case
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A news conference was scheduled for Thursday afternoon to announce a corporate fraud case involving five companies in the medical device implant industry, the office of the U.S. Attorney in New Jersey said.
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who is probing bid-rigging in the insurance industry, expects to file suit against health insurance consultant Universal Life Resources as early as Friday, a spokesman for his office said.
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Ela Medical, a producer of implantable heart devices said it had received a subpoena seeking information about payments to doctors using its products.
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The case before the US federal court of claims in Washington will reignite the controversy over the triple vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has launched four investigations involving the import of computers or electronic device components, including one based on a complaint that several companies are violating patents on DRAM chips.The USITC also voted to launch an investigation, based on a complaint by IBM, into the import of motherboards, graphics cards, notebook computers, server computers, bare-bones computers, and routers by Asustek Computer of Taiwan and Asus Computer International of Fremont, Calif.In the DRAM case, Tessera of San Jose, Calif., filed a complaint on Dec. 7 alleging that 18 companies violated its patents for semiconductor chips with a minimized chip package size. Acer and Kingston Technology are among the companies named in Tessera&#39;s complaint.The commission on Friday also announced it has initiated so-called 337 investigations into the import of silicon microphone packages used in mobile phones and semiconductor lasers used in disc drives.In the Tessera complaint, the company accused competitors of violating four semiconductor patents. The company has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, as well as the USITC complaint. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted reexamination requests on two of those patents.Representatives of Acer and Kingston didn&#39;t immediately respond to a request for comments on the USITC investigation.IBM filed a complaint on Dec. 5, asking the USITC to bar Asustek and North American subsidiary Asus Computer International from importing equipment using PC power supplies, cooling fans, and clustering technologies into the United States. IBM accused Asustek of infringing three patents related to those technologies.IBM attempted to reach a licensing agreement with Asustek after a licensing deal expired in December 2004, an IBM spokesman said in December. An Asus spokeswoman didn&#39;t immediately respond to a request for comments.The semiconductor laser complaint covers lasers used in high-definition disc drives. The investigation is based on a complaint filed by Seoul Semiconductor of Korea on Dec. 4, alleging that Nichhia of Japan has violated its patent.In the silicon microphone case, the patented technology covers microphones in several devices, including mobile phones. The complaint, filed by Knowles Electronics of Itasca, Ill., on Dec. 6, alleges that Mems Technology Berhad of Malaysia has violated its patents.The cases will be referred to an administrative law judge, who will schedule and hold an evidentiary hearing. The judge will make an initial determination as to whether there is a violation of Section 337 of the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930. That initial determination is subject to review by the USITC.Within 45 days, the commission will set a target date for completing the investigations.
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WASHINGTON - Privacy advocates are concerned that an implantable microchip designed to help doctors tap into a patient&#39;s medical records could undermine confidentiality or could even be used to track the patient&#39;s movements.
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WASHINGTON - UnitedHealthcare will pay the federal government $3.5 million to settle allegations of fraud stemming from mishandling of telephone calls involving the Medicare program, the Justice Department announced.
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U.S. prosecutors have joined a   whistle-blower lawsuit accusing a subsidiary of German   pharmaceutical company Merck KGaA MRCG.DE of fraudulently   overcharging the Medicare program, the U.S. government said on   Monday.
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Researchers are developing a tooth implant which automatically releases medicine.
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U.S. officials are expected to  announce on Monday a coordinated crackdown on the theft of U.S.  intellectual property such as pirated compact discs and  knockoff auto parts, the Wall Street Journal reported on  Monday,
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is planning to release new testing requirements for drug-coated heart stents in the next few weeks, the regulatory agency's device chief, Daniel Schultz, told the Wall Street Journal.
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Description: The Food and Drug Administration and several major drug makers announce an anti-fraud initiative to put tiny radio tags into the labels of wholesale pill bottles supplied to pharmacies.
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The Food and Drug Administration approved an implantable computer chip that can pass a patient's medical details to doctors.
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A federal jury on Tuesday ordered Medtronic Inc. (MDT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) to pay $400 million in punitive damages to an inventor of spinal surgical devices sold by the medical equipment maker.
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Potentially contaminated body parts stolen in the US may have been used on British patients, experts admit.
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Ministers are expected to signal the go-ahead for the controversial electronic medical records system.
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A body part allegedly stolen in the US has been implanted in a patient in the UK, a hospital confirms.