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By Carol Gentry
9/2/2010 © Health News Florida
By the time the FDA sent a warning letter to a Boca Raton company about misleading claims for its biofeedback machine -- saying it could treat allergies, asthma, and other ailments -- it was no longer in distribution. Another Boca company was selling another brand of machine, making similar claims.
By Mike Wells
9/3/2010 © Health News Florida
A Florida health-law attorney has triggered comment in legal circles nationwide for suing an online consumer rating service that gave him just 3.7 out of 10 points -- a rating described in a legal blog as lower than a "brick."
9/3/2010 © Florida Times-Union
Mayo Clinic will send letters to more than 3,000 patients who may have come into contact with Steven Beumel, a radiology tech who was fired after admitting to using patients' painkiller shots on himself and reusing the needles to inject saline.
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Nurses' union wins appeal 9/3/2010 © Naples Daily News
A panel of the national labor board in Washington, D.C., agreed with an administrative law judge’s decision that Naples Community Hospital engaged in unfair labor practices toward nurses.
Rand: Private health coverage to soar 9/3/2010 © Palm Beach Post
By 2016, when state insurance exchange marketplaces are up and running, about 35 million people now uninsured will gain coverage through private coverage offered through their employer, a Rand study says.
Patients kept in dark 9/3/2010 © Orlando Sentinel
Last month when health-care giants Florida Hospital and United Healthcare were working out a contract dispute, they failed to tell patients they could continue to see their doctors at in-network prices until Oct. 14. Instead, they were left in limbo.
Scientist detained at Miami airport 8/3/2010 © Associated Press
An unidentified U.S. scientist was detained at Miami International during the early hours today after screeners saw a metal canister that looked like a pipe bomb in his luggage. Four concourses and the hotel were evacuated.
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