Health Insurance Claims for Sex Services Leads to Conspiracy Charges
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is charging a woman for a long-running healthcare fraud scheme: from 2017 to 2021, she billed a health insurer for sexual services offered to dockworkers at her California “wellness centers.” Sara Victoria, the “ringleader” of the scheme, hired women through Long Beach strip clubs and referrals to provide the services […]
Over 1 Million Kids and Young Adults Vaped Every Day in 2019
Each day between 2017 and 2019, nearly 2,300 adolescents and young adults became new daily tobacco users — a figure that mirrors statistics from 1989 to 1993. According to a longitudinal study, the total number of daily vape (or e-cigarette) users under 21 years of age rose to more than 1 million by 2019. Of […]
What happens to marine life when oxygen is scarce?
In September of 2017, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution postdoctoral scholar Maggie Johnson was conducting an experiment with a colleague in Bocas del Toro off the Caribbean coast of Panama. After sitting on a quiet, warm open ocean, they snorkeled down to find a peculiar layer of murky, foul-smelling water about 10 feet below the surface, […]