user: IN: Doctors testing seniors for cocaine, other drugs -- and Medicare pays the bill
By Christopher Weaver and Anna Wilde Mathews

Doctors are testing seniors for drugs such as heroin, cocaine and “angel dust” at soaring rates, and Medicare is paying the bill.

It is a roundabout result of the war on pain-pill addiction.

Medical guidelines encourage doctors who treat pain to test their patients, to make sure they are neither abusing pills nor failing to take them, possibly to sell them.

Now, some pain doctors are making more from testing than from treating.

Spending on the tests took off after Medicare cracked down on what appeared to be abusive billing for simple urine tests. Some doctors moved on to high-tech testing methods, for which billing wasn’t limited.

They started testing for a host of different drugs—including illegal ones that few seniors ever use—and billing the federal health program for the elderly and disabled separately for each substance.

Medicare’s spending on 22 high-tech tests for drugs of abuse hit $445 million in 2012, up 1,423 percent in five years.

The program spent $14 million that year just on tests for angel dust, or PCP. Sue Brown, a laboratory director in Brunswick, Ga., said she has never seen someone over 65 test positive for angel dust, in 25 years in the business.

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OUT: Doctors are testing seniors for drugs such as heroin, cocaine and “angel dust” at soaring rates, and Medicare is paying the bill.


Input: U.S. Consumer Safety Agency Recalls Samsung Galaxy Note 7
The Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday announced a formal recall of the Galaxy Note 7 phone, which has sparked fires and a global crisis for Samsung Electronics Co. SSNHZ 0.00 %

In a statement, the CPSC said consumers “should immediately stop using and power down the recalled Galaxy Note 7 devices.” The agency said users can request a Galaxy Note 7 with a different battery, a refund or a replacement device.

Samsung, in a separate statement, said it expected to have the new Note 7 devices at most U.S. retail locations by Sept. 22.

Samsung already had been pursuing a global recall effort of its own, after reports surfaced of overheating and exploding batteries in its new top-of-the-line phone. But the company’s recall effort has been plagued by problems, including conflicting consumer information and communications troubles with regulators.

According to the CPSC, Samsung has received 92 reports of the batteries overheating in the U.S., including 26 reports of burns and 55 reports of property damage, including fires in cars and a garage.

—George Stahl contributed to this article.

Write to John D. McKinnon at john.mckinnon@wsj.com
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It's about: The Consumer Product Safety Commission said it would announce a formal recall of the Galaxy Note 7 phone, which has sparked fires and a global crisis for Samsung Electronics.


Problem: Microsoft Quickly Looking Past Vista

Windows Vista hasn't even spent two years in stores -- that anniversary arrives tomorrow. But Microsoft is trying to put that operating system in its rearview mirror.

Three weeks ago, the company invited users to preview Vista's replacement, Windows 7. Microsoft hasn't tried to move from one consumer operating system to another this fast since it shipped Windows XP barely a year after the snakebit Windows Millennium Edition.

But Windows 7 -- expect it to ship late this year or early next year -- represents much less of a change than XP. The beta-test release (available through Feb. 10 at http://microsoft.com/windows7) shows a focus on performance fixes, coupled with changes to a few long-settled parts of Windows' interface and extra networking options.

In other words, it's a more efficient, better looking Windows. But it's still Windows.

Merely installing 7 should make that clear. On a Dell laptop running Vista's Home Premium version, an upgrade to 7 took about two hours and three restarts.

Installing Windows 7 from scratch (once inside the Parallels Desktop program on a Mac laptop, once using Apple's Boot Camp software on the same Mac) took only a half-hour, but few users will want to wipe out an existing Windows installation to load 7.

Windows 7's biggest improvement is a reduced appetite for memory. That Dell exhausted almost half of its 2 gigabytes of memory just booting up Vista and a few start-up applications; in 7, it still had almost three-quarters of its memory free. Windows 7 also went to sleep and woke up a second or two faster than Vista, although it took slightly longer to boot up and shut down on that machine.

But Microsoft's pledges of better battery life weren't backed up by a test of DVD playback on the Dell.

Windows 7's most obvious improvement lies at the bottom of the screen, where the task bar gets its first major rewrite since its debut in Windows 95. Instead of rectangular shortcuts to active applications or windows, this strip presents open applications, plus favorites "pinned" to the taskbar, as square tiles labeled with program icons.

Resting the cursor over each tile will bring up live previews of any windows open in an application -- you can even watch a movie play in this thumbnail. A right-click flips up a "jump list" of recent documents and, in some cases, important commands.

If all that sounds like Mac OS X's Dock, it should.

In 7, the "tray," that dumping ground of random icons at the far right of the taskbar, has been swept clean of third-party programs. But you may still need to tell 7 to hide other shortcuts after they pop up there.

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Summary: Windows Vista hasn't even spent two years in stores -- that anniversary arrives tomorrow. But Microsoft is trying to put that operating system in its rearview mirror.


Q: Jayma Mays and Adam Campbell Welcome Son Jude

Jayma Mays is feeling the baby Glee!

The actress, 37, and husband of nine years, Adam Campbell, welcomed their first child, son Jude Jones, at 11:15 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 21.

Mays’ rep did not respond to a request for comment.

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Mays’ rep confirmed in April that the actors, who wed in 2007, were expecting their first child.

Aside from her six-season run on the hit Fox series Glee as guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury, Mays has credits in The Millers, Heroes, Six Feet Under, How I Met Your Mother and The Smurfs movie, to name a few.

British actor Campbell, 36, is recognizable for his role as Logan in season 1 of the highly popular Netflix comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and has made appearances on 2 Broke Girls, NCIS and Parenthood, as well as in music videos for songs by Sara Bareilles and Switchfoot.

E! News was first to report the birth.
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assistant: Married actors Jayma Mays and Adam Campbell are first-time parents