LOS ANGELES, 1:32 p.m. Feb. 15 (AP): A California doctor is under scrutiny by state medical authorities amid reports that he prescribed methadone to Anna Nicole Smith through a prescription that contained an alias.

Bayer Debuts New Medical Materials
Bayer MaterialScience LLC (Pittsburgh) unveiled two new medical materials at MD&M West. ... They are to be used in opague medical applications from surgical ... And it released four medical grades of Texin thermoplastic polyurethanes. ...

Some Costs For Doing Medical Care the "For Profit" Way
A while back McKinsey and Co. did a study to figure out why US health care costs twice as much as most other countries, while leaving 47 million people uninsured and producing results that are worse or equivalent to those spending so ...

Quality or equality? The Norwegian experience with medical monopolies
Background: In order to maintain both quality and efficiency of health services in a small country with a scattered population, Norway established a monopoly system for 38 highly specialized medical services. ...

Barbara Ehrenreich: Medical Larceny
We all need to be prepared to blow the whistle on medical larceny. ... I recently suffered from appendicitis, and was admitted to the emergency room at Saint Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles on November 10 of last year. ...