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Search results for "Red Cross" ...
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PAT Bus Investigation
Channel 4 Action news captured Port Authority bus drivers running red lights over and over again. They also uncovered people that had been badly injured, even killed, in accidents with Port Authority buses. In just the past 3 years, Port Authority has paid out 2.8 million dollars to more than a thousand individuals who claimed they were injured or suffered damages because of Port Authority.
Tags: Port Authorityl Buses
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Charity or Con?
One hundred victims of Hurricane Katrina were supposed to have their homes rebuilt because of a multi-million dollar charity, but families were left homeless and the money was unaccounted. The charity, "100 Homes, 100 Days," was a partnership of national charities like the American Red Cross, Salvation Army and local charities, collecting more than $3 million.
Tags: homeowner; hurricane relief; donation; donate; natural disaster; Home Depot; Pascagoula;
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Holocaust Papers
The series examines the Nazi records and postwar documents kept under seal by the Read Cross for more than 60 years.
Tags: holocaust; Nazi; concentration camp; SS; World War II; Red Cross; Dachau
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Abu Ghraib Series: Living with Ghosts; A Place Dante Might Like; Up in the Cellblocks; Hiding A Bad Guy Named Triple X; Hell On Earth
In this series, US News and World Report investigates the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The articles detail the abuses, the chaotic conditions in the prisons, and "ghost" prisoners. (These prisoners were detainees who were kept off the official books.) The investigations also talks about how military officials kept what was happening at the prison camps away from the Red Cross during their inspections.
Tags: Abu Ghraib scandal; Geneva Convention; Prisoner abuses in Iraq; war of terrorism; Saddam Hussein; military regulations while treating prisoners; Red Cross; CIA
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Profiting from Hope
The Parker Hughes Cancer Center of Minnesota's Twin Cities promises their patients hope in the face of life-threatening disease. But the Star Tribune investigates these promises, and finds that the clinic has a pattern of excessive and sometimes unnecessary tests and treatments. Patients also have complaints about billing processes and unusual charges. The clinic also built up the doctors' credentials, making them sound more qualified than they actually were. Also, the clinic allegedly solicited financial 'rewards.' For example, one physician asked the Red Cross to give money to the clinic as an award for buying blood products.
Tags: Parker Hughes Cancer Center; cancer; doctor; HMO
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Big Bounty for Big Charities
The annual ranking of the organizations that receive the most money each year in private donations. Accompanying the list is an overview of the state of charities in America.
Tags: Fundraising; Red Cross; Cancer Society; salvation army
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The Light at the End of the Chunnel: What was built as a high-speed link for rich Europeans has become an underground railroad for refugees desperate to make it to England - no matter how dangerous the journey.
The Chunnel has become a very popular way of immigrating into England. Landesman talked with people who had done so and illuminates their experiences. He also discusses steps that have been taken to lower the number of people who immigrate this way and the dangers that are involved.
Tags: refugee camps; red cross; France; immigration; trains; Dover; asylum
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Red Cross Investigation
CBS investigates "widespread mismanagement and fraud" the Red Cross has been grappling with. Based on internal memos and audits, the series reports on how Joseph Lecowitch, head of the New Jersey chapter stole more than one million dollars. Other findings are that many chapters have not remitted their Sept. 11 donations to national headquarters; chapters are dipping into the National Disaster Fund "for unnamed purposes;" blood has been taken from donors who said they tested positive for AIDS or were not properly screened; and suspected transfusion-related diseases are not investigated.
Tags: Elizabeth Dole; lobbying; FDA; safety; health; embezzlement; fraud; charity; 9/11; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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Sept. 11 Donors a Windfall for Blood Trade
A Palm Beach Post investigation reveals that "much of the blood that Americans donated to victims of the Sept. 11 attacks ended up being sold to multinational companies and other countries. A month after the attacks, U.S. blood exports jumped 48 percent to $90 million, the highest monthly total on record. American blood industry officials don't want to talk about overseas shipments, fearing the psychological fallout resulting from the over-collection and export of Sept. 11 blood would discourage donors, who are routinely told their blood will stay in the community."
Tags: Americans; blood donation; American Red Cross; export; September 11; terrorist attacks
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Blood Errors
The series -- the result of an intensive Freedom of Information battle with the Food and Drug Administration -- "was two-pronged: an initial (three-part) series found hundreds of hospital patients across the U.S. had died following blood transfusions. The investigation found that "hospital labs mislabeled blood, nurses transfused it into the wrong patients, phlebotomists drew blood samples from the wrong people and, in some cases, deadly contaminated blood was transfused into patients." A secondary investigation "developed as an offshoot of the series. A special blood plasma made on Long Island and sold by the American Red Cross to thousands of hospitals was killing liver transplant patients." Newsday documented 16 deaths in liver transplant patients and found that the plasma was deficient in a crucial protein, making it especially dangerous to people with liver disease.
Tags: blood; hospitals; medicine; American Red Cross; transfusions; Long Island; plasma; Food and Drug Administration; FDA; FOIA; database mapping project