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Gentiva and Amedysis, two of the largest home healthcare agencies are being investigated by Congress for patient billing practices.  Gentiva was recently sued for illegally denying overtime payments to nurses.

European Drug Company AstraZeneca had its wrist slapped this week by the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA").  FDA fined AstraZeneca for illegally promoting the anti-psychotic drug Seroquel and for illegally paying doctors to prescribe the drug.

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is developing new guidelines requiring higher and more scentific standards than under the Bush administration.  Under the Bush administration, many of the Bush FDA appointees were former pharmaceutical industry or medical device company employees which approved deadly drugs like Vioxx, Avandia and Trayslol and defective heart devices from Medtronic or Guidant.