Strayhorn to investigate alleged drug fraud in foster care
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AUSTIN -- Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn is investigating foster care and possible Medicaid prescription drug fraud. Strayhorn said Texas is spending about $4 million per year on mind-altering drugs for foster care children.
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Children with ADHD continue to be prescribed drugs such as Ritalin, despite an ongoing investigation.
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A 4-year-old foster child whose unsolved disappearance rocked Florida's child welfare agency two years ago was caged and tied up before she vanished, authorities said Wednesday in announcing abuse charges against her two caregivers.
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A drug company executive who spoke out in support of Montgomery County's proposal to import drugs from Canada and similar legislation before Congress said that his company has launched an investigation into his political activities.
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A new study conducted in rats by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School suggests that the misdiagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) combined with prescription drug use in children may lead
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The FDA is investigating Teva's generic version of Wellbutrin XL.
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The US Food and Drug Administration, under sharp criticism for its drug safety behavior involving anti-inflammatory drugs, antidepressants, and the silencing of its own drug safety scientists, has been offered a new name today: the Fraud and Drug
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A congressional subcommittee voted Tuesday to subpoena former and current Food and Drug Administration investigators to testify about fraudulent clinical data that supported approval of the antibiotic drug Ketek.
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State auditors said they found widespread mismanagement in a state program to pay for prescription drugs for low-income families that cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
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An independent expert will be brought  in to investigate the Houston Police Department crime lab after  new discoveries of mislabeled and misplaced evidence at the  troubled facility, officials said on Tuesday.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) has accused an equine compounding pharmacy of illegally making and selling animal drugs.
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A former systems administrator for the nationâs largest pharmacy benefits manager has been indicted on fraud charges.
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The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the medical supply industry over concerns that some health care providers bilked government programs including Medicare, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn&#39;s reputation as a watchdog for the health and education of Texas children is summed up in a needlepoint decoration in her office: &quot;One
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An investigation focused on Medicaid fraud has also shed light on outdated oversight policies that experts said have allowed the home health care industry to escape adequate scrutiny.
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Police were sent to 22 Texas Youth Commission facilities and the agency headquarters Tuesday to investigate claims that young inmates were sexually abused and that agency officials covered it up.
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For more than a year, US civil rights investigators have been probing into the care delivered at Metro&#39;s Bordeaux Hospital, a nursing home where federal consultants have discovered a history