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The Health Law Partners, P.C. released a HealthCare Notification entitled: What All Health Care Providers and Suppliers Need To Know About the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Program.
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FBI Should Probe Whether 'Systemic Problems' Led To 'Gaps' In Tiller Murder Case, NYT Editorial States
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Congress "should review the killing" of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller "to determine whether there are systemic problems that led to apparent gaps in the FBI"s performance in the case," a New York Times editorial states. According to the Times, Holder "took the prudent step of ordering" the U.S. Marshals Service to "provide security for certain abortion clinics and physicians thought to be at heightened risk," but the government"s response "must not end there."The editorial states that Scott Roeder, the man accused of killing Tiller, has a history of activity related to the antiabortion-rights movement that "should have sparked greater concern" with the FBI, including being suspected in 2000 of "repeatedly gluing shut the doors of an abortion clinic in Kansas City, Kan. -- a federal crime under the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances law." Roeder also was found in possession of "gunpowder and a fuse" when stopped for a traffic violation in 1996, according to the Times. The editorial states, "In the past, Tiller was shot in both arms, and his clinic was bombed and vandalized," but "it seems as if the federal authorities failed to increase security for Dr. Tiller and his offices."The editorial continues, "An armed criminal bent on murder is hard to stop, and we do not blame the FBI for Dr. Tiller"s death." However, "reproductive rights advocates say enforcement of the clinic protection law waned in the Bush years," the editorial says, concluding that Holder "should make sure there is no underlying problem that inhibits efforts to combat intimidation and violence against the dwindling number of legal abortion providers -- and women they help" (New York Times, 6/8).
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UN And WHO Heads Meet Vaccine Manufacturers

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Margaret Chan and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with over 30 vaccine manufacturers from developing and developed countries at WHO headquarters today. Both the Director-General and the Secretary-General stressed the importance of assuring that any eventual vaccine for Influenza A(H1N1) was made available in a spirit of equity and fairness, and invited the manufacturers to continue to work with them to develop a strategy for this. Industry representatives affirmed their wish to cooperate in making supplies available to developing countries, and said they stood ready to produce the vaccine when requested. At a press conference later in the day, Dr Chan said "We have a very serious commitment from companies in the north and in the south to work with WHO." She said the Secretary-General"s ability to mobilize res "is extremely vital when the world is under threat of an imminent pandemic." Together with the UN and other members of the global community, WHO would work to find innovative funding mechanisms to ensure that developing countries were not denied access to vaccines because of lack of means. Both the Director-General and Secretary-General expressed their appreciation of the efforts of the manufacturers, with support from governments, to further increase their production capacity. Although WHO was not a funding agency, Dr Chan said she took it as part of her job to advocate for the poor. "In the name of solidarity, I have reached out to drug and vaccine manufacturers," she said. "We will look at different mechanisms to make sure poor communities and countries are not left out." She said she had spoken with UNITAID, GAVI the World Bank and foundations to continue work on funding. The Director-General said she would meet with vaccine manufacturers individually to work out strategies to ensure pandemic vaccine availability. In response to a question on pandemic alert phase change, Dr Chan explained that the definition of WHO"s influenza preparedness phases was developed against backdrop of H5N1 avian flu. Influenza A(H1N1) has a very different clinical picture, which is so far mostly mild and self limiting, unlike H5N1, which had a 50 to 60 percent mortality rate. At the on-going World Health Assembly, she said that Member States had asked that WHO reflects criteria other than geographic spread before moving to Phase 6. The pandemic alert level is at Phase 5. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also visited the JW Lee Centre for Strategic Health Operations (also known as the SHOC room) at WHO headquarters, the centre of WHO"s emergency response. WHO


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