Haven Hospice Announces Shutdown of Affiliate Hit With $5m Fine

Hardly a month after its affiliate was hit by a $5 million federal fine, Haven Hospice announced its subsidiary, VNA and Hospice of the Florida Keys, will shut down by February’s end. “Haven knowingly submitted false claims to the Medicare and Medicaid programs for medically unnecessary hospice care for certain patients who had lengths of


Panera Cream Cheese Recalled Amid Listeria Fears

The popular bakery-cafe chain, Panera Bread, recently issued a recall for many of its cream cheese products over concerns of possible listeria contamination. Known for its delicious sandwiches and soups, Panera decided to voluntarily recall “2 oz. and 8 oz. cream cheese products after samples of one of its cream cheese products from a single production day showed a positive result for Listeria monocytogenes bacteria.”


Health Experts Urge Facebook to Turn Off ‘Messenger Kids’

Childhood is a precious time filled with imagination and wonder. It’s also a time where many agree technology should be limited, which is why the latest Messenger Kids app offered through Facebook has some pediatric and mental health experts concerned. In fact, these experts are so concerned about the potentially damaging effects of the Facebook app that they’re “calling on Facebook to kill the messaging service…that was introduced last month for children as young as 6.” What has these experts so concerned, though?


California Woman Sues Wal-Mart, Claims Racial Discrimination in Beauty Product Displays

A California woman is suing retail giant Wal-Mart on grounds of racial discrimination, claiming that it keeps skin- and haircare products used by African-Americans behind locked sliding-glass panels. The unusual display setup, she argues, serves little purpose other than to perpetuate the stereotype that blacks are taken to criminality. Plaintiff Essie Grundy, a 43-year old


Did the Wonder Years T.V. Show End Over a Sexual Harrassment Claim?

Fans of The Wonder Years may be interested to learn that a sexual harassment claim was allegedly what brought the popular show to an end. According to one of the show’s lead actresses, “Alley Mills, who played Fred Savage’s mother, Norma Arnold,” a sexual harassment lawsuit was filed in 1993 by “ 31-year-old costume designer Monique Long” against “Savage and Jason Hervey, who played Savage’s older brother.” At the time, Savage was 16 and Hervey was 20. But what happened, exactly?