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COAL GROVE, OH (WSAZ) -- Mass radiation poisoning is the overwhelming concern after a state and federal raid today on a local doctor and imaging center. We’re talking about suspected medical insurance fraud on a grand scale - linked to maybe thousands of unneeded cat scans. The raid Wednesday morning involved numerous agencies, everybody from the local sheriff - to the department of defense, because patients connected to the military are involved. Click here to find out more! We’re told the raid on a Coal Grove, Ohio medical center involves multi-millions in suspected Medicaid and Medicare fraud. And agents say...

A local business is currently being raided for what the Department of Defense tells WSAZ.com is a multi-million dollar billing fraud investigation. COAL GROVE, Ohio (WSAZ) -- Two local business are currently being raided for what the investigators on the scene tell WSAZ.com is a multi-million dollar billing fraud investigation. 40 local, state and federal agencies are involved in a raid at Dr. Peter Tsai's Medical Office and the Watkins-Tsai Imaging Center in Coal Grove. Click here to find out more! The two businesses are located just off US 52 at the Coal Grove exit on Marion Pike. Investigators tell...

Clarisse is a snake, found in the Fossil Butte region of Wyoming, perfectly fossilized in limestone and the only one of her kind known to be in existence. Palentologist Hussan Zaher found her, and he brought her to Houston in hopes of learning more about her. He brought his precious find to The Methodist Hospital and subjected her to a detailed CT (computerized tomography) scan in hopes of finding where Clarisse fits along the timeline of evolution. [You need Flash installed to watch this video] ...CT scan technician Pam Mager conducted the scan on a 64-slice scanner that is capable...

A cell isn’t merely a bag of enzymes sloshing around in a thick soup of cytoplasm. According to Assistant Professor of Biology Grant Jensen, it’s more like a multistory factory—a set of interwoven production lines complete with conveyor belts, forklifts, and steel I-beams to hold up the roof. Or, if you prefer, the world’s most elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption. The cell’s cogs and camshafts, springs and motors, girders and sheet metal (or, in the Rube Goldberg case, gloved hands on sticks, precariously balanced bathtubs, and spring-loaded mallets) are protein molecules. Protein machines conduct the cell’s metabolic business; protein motors make...

The amount of medical misinformation put out about Terri Schiavo has been truly stunning. The testimony of Terri’s physicians who believe that some recovery is possible has been largely dismissed. Judge Greer’s court and the media in turn, have focused only on the pessimistic interpretations of the raw data of her CT scan. A physician at a credible physicians’ website has analyzed Terri’s CAT scan and concludes that it has been grossly misrepresented. There is some cerebral atrophy, but it is a completely inaccurate to characterize it as “bag of water.” Furthermore, the author states that “the most alarming thing...

< This is supposed to be Terri Schiavo's CAT scan from the last court case.

WHAT'S NEXT THE familiar electrocardiograms of yearly medical checkups are the routine way to record electrical activity of the heart and detect disorders in its rhythms. But the test is relatively insensitive at pinpointing small areas where there may be problems, since a standard EKG machine samples electrical potential only at a handful of points on the body's surface. But a new computer-based method developed by a researcher seeks to deliver far more detailed information about the electrical activity of the heart. Instead of a dozen or so electrodes, the technique uses 224 of them, all woven into a chain...