Extra billing sometimes a ‘misunderstanding,’ Ontario health minister says at AshTip Solution.

An ENT doctor has been sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to repay $4.7 million to Medicare after a federal jury found her guilty of 20 criminal charges, including endangering patients' health by reusing single-use surgical devices, stealing their identities, and defrauding Medicare, the Department of Justice announced. 2023-07-11

Although multiple international medical societies over recent years have recommended lowering the threshold for bariatric surgery to a body mass index (BMI) of 30-35 (class 1 obesity) in certain patients (see box), very few patients in this weight category have had such surgery, according to a new study. 2023-07-14

The CDC is calling for more health care providers to become educated about alpha-gal syndrome, or AGS – an allergy caused by tick bites that may have affected up to 450,000 people in the United States. 2023-07-28

WHO strongly condemns the attack on Al Ahli Arab Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip. The hospital was operational, with patients, health and care givers, and internally displaced people sheltering there. Early reports indicate hundreds of fatalities and injuries.The hospital was one of 20 in the north of the Gaza Strip facing evacuation orders from the Israeli military. The order for evacuation has been impossible to carry out given the current insecurity, critical condition of many patients, and lack of ambulances, staff, health system bed capacity, and alternative shelter for those displaced.WHO calls for the immediate active protection of civilians and health care. 2023-10-20

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