Washington Editor (BioWorld)
Although biotech is still somewhat of a young industry, and for the most part, not yet profitable, it has the technological resources and capabilities now to tackle the challenges of neglected diseases, said Christopher Earl, CEO of BIO Ventures for Global Health.

Feds need your help fighting rampant Medicare fraud (TCPalm.com)
Lifelong tennis player Robert Poller has a notice mailed to him by Medicare, saying it paid a Hialeah rental company for a device to treat circulation problems that have never plagued his two healthy legs.

County expects to lose some federal funds (Park Rapids Enterprise)
Without passage of a moratorium on new federal rules for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Hubbard County social services will lose access to child welfare targeted case management funds beginning March 1.