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you can watch awful interview with a specialist on the region dr daniel must. there's also plenty of other expert opinion on syria's going on rest and the latest news from. hundreds of protesters have been storming ukraine's court of appeal that's where the country's former prime minister's conviction for abuse of power is being challenge you know tymoshenko is trying to avoid spending seven years in jail but couldn't be present in court due to poor health meaning the hearings were pushed until wednesday. as this report. the fate of ukraine's hold prime minister still remains in the shadows because we understand according to her lawyers that according to the iranian law the appeal decision the decision on her appeal cannot be taken without due to a shy girl herself presence in the court room and she is not here and there's also a great deal of control over see on that story as well so some sources say that she has a very serious blood disease other sources say that she has a ruptured spine and she cannot walk by herself that's why she was not delivered to the c

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dr. miracle's book is discussed on booktv and you can watch those programs online at booktv.org. psychologist daniel takes an in-depth look at the irrationality of everyday human thought in thinking fast and slow. in a world on fire amanda foreman writes about what side great britain would have supported during the civil war. for the complete list of the new york times best books of 2011 go to new yorktimes.com. >> it is my policy not to discuss the film's i am making while i am making them for all the obvious reasons. >> area currently working on one? >> maybe. i don't talk about it. they just appear when they appear. is not in the best interests of the film to give a heads up. i was sick go before i made psycho. i said i was making a film on the health-care industry and health-care industry went on high alert. they went on real high alert. even though the film was not really about them, the health-insurance industry, pharmaceutical companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars preparing for me. i would get all these internal memos sent to me from people at different pharmaceutical companies and

first witness today will be daniel levinson legal inspector general of the department of health and human services. thank you for being here. our next witness on the panel will be dr. patrick conway, chief medical officer for the centers of medicare and medicaid services and director of the office of clinical standards and quality. thank you for being here. daniel levinson. >> good afternoon, chairman k l kohl. thank you for the opportunity to testify. these drugs are powerful. miss use poses a risk to the elderly. two recent reports raise concern about the use of anti psychotics by elderly nursing-home residents particularly those with dementia. we hired psychiatrists expert in treating elderly patients review samples of medical records. their review revealed the following. in 2007, 14% of nursing home residents had medicare claims for anti psychotic drugs. half of these drug claims should not have been paid for by medicare because the drugs were not used her medically accepted indications. for one in five claims the nursing-home used drugs in a way that violated government standards for their use. for example prescribed dose was too hot or residents were on medi

our first witness will be daniel levinson, inspector general of the health and human services. we thank you for being here. our next witness on the panel will be dr. patrick conway, chief medical officer for the centers of medicare and medicaid services and director of the office of clinical standards and quality. we thank you for being here. mr. levinson? >> good afternoon, chairman. thank you for the opportunity to testify about the use of a typical antipsychotic drugs in nursing homes. these drugs are powerful. and misuse poses a risk to the elderly. two recent oig reports raised concerns about the use of antipsychotics by elderly nursing home residents particularly those with dementia we hired psychiatrists expert in treating elderly patients with a sample of medical records their review revealed the following. in 2007, 14% of nursing home residents or nearly 305,000 patients had medicare claims for antipsychotic drugs. half of these drug claims should not have been paid for by medicare because the drugs were not used for medically accepted indications. for 1 in 5 drug claims, nursing homes dispensed these drugs in a way that violated the gov