Posts Tagged ‘Gross’
Octomom’s doctor loses his California medical license
The California fertility doctor who implanted a dozen embryos in Nadya Suleman, resulting in the birth of eight babies, will lose his medical license on July 1, state officials said.
The California Medical Board ruled that Dr. Michael Kamrava committed “gross negligence” with “repeated negligent acts, for an excessive number of embryo transfers” into Suleman in 2008.
Suleman — known in the media as “Octomom” — was 33 when she gave birth to eight babies in January 2009. She was a single woman who already had six young children conceived through in-vitro fertilization administered by Kamrava…
The doctor “did not think he could refuse to transfer less embryos than those to which N.S. would agree because he believe at the time that the ultimate decision should be largely driven by the patient’s wishes,” the board wrote in the decision released Wednesday.
“While the evidence did not establish (Kamrava) as a maverick or deviant physician, oblivious to standards of care in IVF practices, it certainly demonstrated that he did not exercise sound judgment in the transfer of 12 embryos to patient N.S. (Suleman),” the board wrote…
Kamrava was also found guilty of gross negligence in two other cases, including his treatment of a woman on her late 40s who became pregnant with quadruplets after he implanted seven embryos. Her pregnancy was “rocked with complications,” according to the medical board.
Another case was a missed cancer diagnosis for a patient with an abnormal lab report.
It was revealed during Kamrava’s revocation hearing last October that Suleman still has 29 frozen embryos in storage available for her use should she want more children.
The complaint said the doctor should have referred Suleman to a mental health physician…
I don’t care if he’s greedy or loony – a couple of qualities that could be applied equally to his notorious patient – he certainly set the perception of his craft back to the level of carnival charlatan.
iPhone App Store annual gross? How about $2.4 billion a year?
If I were to tell you that Apple’s app economy was worth more than $2.4 billion a year, you would laugh hysterically, shake your head and walk out of the room, yes? Surf on over to some other web site? But here I am telling you exactly that!
According to mobile advertising startup AdMob, there are some $200 million worth of applications sold in Apple’s iPhone store every month, or about $2.4 billion a year.
Just to put that in context, Apple says about 1.5 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store. In comparison, the Android marketplace brings in about $5 million a month or on a run rate to do $60 million in a year, AdMob says…
* Each month, Android and iPhone users download approximately 10 new apps, while iPod touch owners download an average of 18…
* Nearly 50 percent of iPhone users and 40 percent of iPod touch users buy at least one app every month vs. 19 percent of Android-based phone owners…
The biggest takeaway from this data: People are happy spending money on apps for their smartphones, especially after they’ve had a chance to try them for free.
I don’t post much Geek Industry Business reporting. Sites like Om’s already do a terrific job and have a ton of traffic.
This is here just to stick a finger in the eye of a few peer bloggers who end every discussion of the App Store with something like, “It’s an interesting concept; but, people are just downloading the free stuff to try. They really don’t spend much money there.”
Har!
Two more U.S. banks fail
Federal regulators have closed two small Western banks, bringing to seven the number of U.S. banks that have failed this year.
The banks, owned by First National Bank Holding Co. of Scottsdale, Arizona, will have their deposits and some assets transferred to Mutual of Omaha Bank, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., or FDIC…
Bill Uffelman of the Nevada Bankers Association called the FDIC action “a reflection of the times for the banks.” The world’s largest banks and securities firms have announced more than $468 billion in writedowns and credit losses since the start of 2007.
Sheila Bair, chairwoman of the FDIC, has said bank failures will increase as foreclosures rise and home sales slump.
On July 11, regulators closed IndyMac Bancorp, a California-based mortgage lender with more than $19 billion in deposits. Bair said the federal government might offer to share in the losses to entice buyers to pay a higher price for IndyMac’s assets.
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