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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Three former Philip Morris employees have accused the tobacco giant of manipulating nicotine in cigarettes, according to government affidavits released today. Ian Uydess, former Philip Morris senior scientist, Philip Morris' former research director William Farone, and a former Richmond., Va. plant manager told the Food and Drug Administration that Philip Morris alters nicotine levels several times in the cigarette making process. Their accusations contradict the firm's sworn testimony before Congress in 1994. Then president William Campbell denied that the company controls nicotine or that the chemical is addictive. He also said that the tobacco is never blended...
TASZAR, HUNGARY: Reuters is reporting that a U.S. Army sergeant assigned to Operation Joint Endeavor died of an apparent heart attack at Taszar Air Base in Hungary on Thursday. According to the Pentagon, Clement Southall, 39, of Virginia Beach, Va., experienced nausea and breathing difficulties in his quarters at the base late last night...
Given its many Byzantine rules, it's not surprising that the VA has been the health-care provider of last resort for many vets, who turn first to employee benefits, Medicare or Medicaid. But according to estimates announced last week by the VA and the Department of Health and Human Services, as many as 172,000 veterans could lose their Medicaid coverage in 2002. At the same time, increasing premiums and copayments for Medicare could spur an additional 400,000 veterans to head to VA medical centers. The numbers are debatable, but the basic dynamic is not: all three systems...
...People think of the VA as that red brick building up on the hill, where Uncle Charlie died," says Richard Fuller, director of health-policy program development for the Paralyzed Veterans of America. "They don't realize that the VA is an integral part of the health-care network. With the VA budget being cut and Medicare and Medicaid being capped below existing growth rates, you have people going into health-care limbo...
Under Secretary Kizer was brought in last year to try to make the VA system more efficient, consolidating redundant facilities and shifting the emphasis from in-patient to outpatient care to the extent the law allows. But if demand begins to dwarf resources, he says, the VA will circle the wagons around its core mission of providing for veterans' service-related disabilities. Other services, such as nursing-home care, says Kizer, "are subject to being diminished." The extent to which the VA will be able to treat the poor or nonservice-related maladies will depend on the political decisions Americans...