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North America | United States | Corruption

FDA: Government Recommends Untested, Unlicensed Vaccines for Pregnant Women

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In response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the FDA has admitted, for the first time, that government agencies, including the CDC, are recommending vaccines for pregnant women that have neither been licensed for pregnant mothers by FDA nor tested for safety in clinical trials. The lawsuit, filed by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) attorney, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on behalf of Informed Consent Action Network(ICAN), a vaccine safety advocacy group, sought all clinical trial data used by FDA to approve influenza vaccines for pregnant women. The FDA’s terse reply: “We
North America | United States | Corruption

Mostly Women…Shame: School drug counselors charged with carrying out $46-million Medi-Cal fraud scheme

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In middle schools and high schools across Los Angeles County, Atlantic Recovery Services offered some hope: a free, government-funded treatment program for children coping with drug and alcohol addiction. But prosecutors alleged this week that the Long Beach-based program was set up to exploit children and defraud taxpayers, with supervisors telling staffers to forge student signatures, falsify treatment records, and enroll students who may have merely dabbled in drugs, even once. Eight employees of the now-defunct drug treatment company have been charged in a decade-long scheme that ne
North America | Canada | Corruption

Scotiabank finally admits its mistake in holding back funds after a woman refuses to answer bank’s questions

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“It’s my money,” says Kemptville resident Cathie Adeney, who believes Scotiabank should not have withheld funds from a Registered Education Savings Plan for more than two months because of her refusal to answer questions regarding her net worth and salary. I was floored … I couldn’t believe it. I walked out of that bank without my money. — Cathie Adeney Driving home that day last May, she wondered what she was would tell her son, Jackson, who begins classes at Conestoga College in Kitchener next week and needed at least some of the funds to cover deposits and other expense
North America | United States | Corruption

Chesterfield woman charged with stealing $800,000 from Virginia Physicians for Women

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A former billing specialist for Virginia Physicians for Women who has a prior conviction for welfare fraud has been charged with embezzling more than $800,000 from the well-known obstetrics and gynecology practice in Midlothian. Edith W. Harris, 51, of the 7400 block of Sandlewood Drive, was arrested June 29 on 11 counts of felony embezzlement, Chesterfield County police announced Monday. Grohowski said Harris was responsible for making reimbursements to the accounts of patients who had overpaid for services while under the care of Virginia Physicians for Women at 10710 Midlothian Turn
North America | United States | Corruption

70 women say their babies may have been taken from them at Homer G. Phillips

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Some 70 women have come forward in less than 24 hours to tell St. Louis city officials they fear their babies were taken from them at birth and then given away. Jaqueline Butler called our newsroom to tell us her story about the birth of her daughter, “If she’s alive I would love to be united or reunited with her.” Butler called after she saw a story concerning Gospel singer Zella Jackson Price.  Price was reunited with her daughter 50 years after giving birth at Homer G. Phillips Hospital.  Zella was told her baby had died but she never believed it. Neither did her daughter and la
Latin America | El Salvador | Corruption

In El Salvador, women thrown in jail for miscarriages and stillbirths

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When Guadalupe Vasquez became pregnant at 17 after being raped by a neighbor of the house where she worked as a maid, she decided she wanted the baby. She even picked out a name: Gabriel. Then, on a day in late 2007, pain shot through her back and abdomen. Vasquez says she started bleeding, but her employer wouldn’t let her leave the house to get medical care. Sick in her room and alone, she went into labor. She heard the baby cry briefly, and then he was dead. Only then did the employer send her to the hospital, saying she did not want to “deal with two dead in my house,
Middle East | Lebanon | Corruption

Lebanese customs agents seize radioactive maxi pads

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Customs agents at an airport in the Lebanese capital seized more than half a ton of maxi pads after radioactive material was detected in the shipment. The Lebanese Finance Ministry said the 30 crates of feminine hygiene products, weighing a total 1,221 pounds, were seized Friday at Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut after electronic scanners detected radioactivity in the shipment. Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil ordered a sample from the shipment to be sent to the Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission for testing. The shipment arrived at the airport Friday from Dubai, officia
North America | United States | Corruption

When Our Monsters Speak, TV Journalists Go Deaf

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Public debate on TV in western societies has long been reduced to the spectacle of the 1% talking to each other: millionaire journalists pretending to hold even wealthier politicians accountable. This usually constrains debate exactly the way one would expect, but gruesome truths are sometimes revealed, inadvertently, because rotten values are shared by elite journalists and western officials. Consider the infamous exchange between Madeleine Albright and Lesley Stahl in May of 1996: Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean,

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