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Discovery Health Channel New Series Mfi: Medical Fraud Investigators Features True-Life Stories Of Medical Scams (press release)

Monday, September 26, 2005
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
Tags: medical fraud, health news, Natural News


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Every year, thousands of cases of medical fraud are reported to law enforcement agencies across the country. On September 26, at 10 PM (ET/PT), Discovery Health Channel airs MFI: MEDICAL FRAUD INVESTIGATORS, a new series featuring real-life stories that profile unique crime fighters who take on fraudulent cases. The first episode is an encore presentation that originally aired in June and will be followed with all new episodes beginning Monday October 3, at 10PM (ET/PT).

Each one-hour episode profiles some of the most intense and unbelievable true-life cases of medical fraud. These frauds not only scam people for money, but also can leave their victims psychologically scarred, traumatized and sometimes dead. MFI: MEDICAL FRAUD INVESTIGATORS presents real-life stories designed to raise awareness of medical fraud cases and alert viewers to recognize that anyone can be a victim of these dangerous schemes.

“Medical fraud has been under the non-fiction television radar screen for a long time,” stated LMNO Executive Producer Eric Schotz. “The topic is extremely compelling and the cases we cover show the medical, emotional and financial pain created. In 2003 alone, the Federal government won or negotiated more than $1.8 billion in judgments and settlements in health care fraud matters.”

MFI: MEDICAL FRAUD INVESTIGATORS stories are told through interviews with victims, witnesses and the investigative teams from law enforcement agencies that worked each case. Dramatic re-creations, news footage and actual undercover footage are used to chronicle the crimes and the investigations undertaken to "crack" these complex cases.

Some of the cases viewers will witness include the story of a well-versed con man who poses as a world-renowned physician and offers terminally ill patients a drug cocktail he calls “immustim,” claiming that $40,000 and weeks of IV treatments could cure cancer, AIDS and a number of other diseases; a highly respected nurse who injected her patients with the heart stimulant epinephrine, causing cardiac arrest because she enjoyed the thrill of creating a medical emergency; and an account of a massive undercover sting operation set up by the FBI to catch illegitimate medical supply companies who were trying to convince doctors and clinics to prescribe unnecessary equipment to be billed to Medicaid.


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About the author:Mike Adams (aka the "Health Ranger") is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com) and a globally recognized scientific researcher in clean foods. He serves as the founding editor of NaturalNews.com and the lab science director of an internationally accredited (ISO 17025) analytical laboratory known as CWC Labs. There, he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for achieving extremely high accuracy in the analysis of toxic elements in unknown water samples using ICP-MS instrumentation. Adams is also highly proficient in running liquid chromatography, ion chromatography and mass spectrometry time-of-flight analytical instrumentation.

Adams is a person of color whose ancestors include Africans and Native American Indians. He's also of Native American heritage, which he credits as inspiring his "Health Ranger" passion for protecting life and nature against the destruction caused by chemicals, heavy metals and other forms of pollution.

Adams is the founder and publisher of the open source science journal Natural Science Journal, the author of numerous peer-reviewed science papers published by the journal, and the author of the world's first book that published ICP-MS heavy metals analysis results for foods, dietary supplements, pet food, spices and fast food. The book is entitled Food Forensics and is published by BenBella Books.

In his laboratory research, Adams has made numerous food safety breakthroughs such as revealing rice protein products imported from Asia to be contaminated with toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium and tungsten. Adams was the first food science researcher to document high levels of tungsten in superfoods. He also discovered over 11 ppm lead in imported mangosteen powder, and led an industry-wide voluntary agreement to limit heavy metals in rice protein products.

In addition to his lab work, Adams is also the (non-paid) executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (CWC), an organization that redirects 100% of its donations receipts to grant programs that teach children and women how to grow their own food or vastly improve their nutrition. Through the non-profit CWC, Adams also launched Nutrition Rescue, a program that donates essential vitamins to people in need. Click here to see some of the CWC success stories.

With a background in science and software technology, Adams is the original founder of the email newsletter technology company known as Arial Software. Using his technical experience combined with his love for natural health, Adams developed and deployed the content management system currently driving NaturalNews.com. He also engineered the high-level statistical algorithms that power SCIENCE.naturalnews.com, a massive research resource featuring over 10 million scientific studies.

Adams is well known for his incredibly popular consumer activism video blowing the lid on fake blueberries used throughout the food supply. He has also exposed "strange fibers" found in Chicken McNuggets, fake academic credentials of so-called health "gurus," dangerous "detox" products imported as battery acid and sold for oral consumption, fake acai berry scams, the California raw milk raids, the vaccine research fraud revealed by industry whistleblowers and many other topics.

Adams has also helped defend the rights of home gardeners and protect the medical freedom rights of parents. Adams is widely recognized to have made a remarkable global impact on issues like GMOs, vaccines, nutrition therapies, human consciousness.

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