Lysenko—a crackpot with the power of the Soviet state behind him—was the recipient of numerous awards, including, on eight ...

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Mehmet Oz, the controversial television doctor and failed Senate candidate for Pennsylvania who has routinely promoted pseudoscientific and unproven ...

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is the federal agency that provides health coverage to more ... medical advice that opponents called “quack” medicine. Oz graduated from Harvard ...

If Kennedy and Oz are confirmed as heads of HHS and NIH, respectively) we are going to be seeing an explosion of 17th-century ...

The incoming administration in Washington, D.C., may make history for our nation’s public health, yet not in a positive manner. The nominee for Cabinet secretary of the Department of Health and ...

quackery and selfishness. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been among the most prominent of the anti-vaxxers and he has, in Trump, support for his fringe views. Kennedy has no medical or public health ...

Highlights The OIG and DOJ released the annual report, detailing $3.4 million in healthcare fraud and abuse recoveries and ...

A western New York health insurance provider for seniors and the CEO of its medical analytics arm have agreed to pay a total of up to $100 million to settle Justice Department allegations of ...

WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make American Healthy Again movement calls for many things — avoiding chronic disease, ...

A qui tam lawsuit involving ASD Specialty Healthcare LLC (ASD) illustrates the importance of whistleblowers in revealing fraudulent practices in the healthcare industry. ASD, operating under the ...

Image The back of the Acadia center where Mr. Pagano worked. “I was told this is not a mental health clinic, this is a methadone clinic,” he said.Credit...Michelle Gustafson for The New York ...

Dr. Bethany Cataldi was indicted Nov. 20 for health care fraud, falsifying health care statements and money laundering, according to federal court records. She surrendered to authorities Nov. 22 ...