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Mexican Docs, Nurses Busted In Baby Selling Ring

“Police uncovered the scheme after one of the women learned her baby was alive and had been sold to another woman for 15,000 pesos, said Luis Genaro, the capital’s deputy attorney general.

The woman gave birth to a girl through cesarean section at the Central West Hospital in a working-class district in October 2008, Mr Genaro said at a news conference. ” Link

Octuplet Mom's Doctor Also Implanted 49yr Old Woman With Embryos

Octuplet Mom’s Doctor Also Implanted 49yr Old Woman With Embryos (more…)

Drug Makers Kill Free Goodies For Doctors

“Starting Jan. 1, the pharmaceutical industry has agreed to a voluntary moratorium on the kind of branded goodies — Viagra pens, Zoloft soap dispensers, Lipitor mugs — that were meant to foster good will and, some would say, encourage doctors to prescribe more of the drugs. No longer will Merck furnish doctors with purplish adhesive bandages advertising Gardasil, a vaccine against the human papillomavirus. Banished, too, are black T-shirts from Allergan adorned with rhinestones that spell out B-O-T-O-X. So are pens advertising the Sepracor sleep drug Lunesta, in whose barrel floats the brand’s mascot, a somnolent moth.” [Link]

Doctors Nix Primary Care Jobs

“Only 2 percent of graduating medical students say they plan to work in primary care internal medicine, raising worries about a looming shortage of the first-stop doctors who used to be the backbone of the American medical system. The results of a new survey being published Wednesday suggest more medical students, many of them saddled with debt, are opting for more lucrative specialties.” [Link]

Video: Dennis Quaid Talks About His Twins Medical Crisis On 60 Minutes

On CBS Sixty Minutes, Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly Quaid discuss the overdose Cedars Sinai hospital gave their twin children.