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Suspended physician’s assistant sentenced for forgery (Johnson City Press)

ERWIN — A suspended physician’s assistant was sentenced Thursday to 15 days in jail and placed on probation for four years for signing the name of a doctor to an order that he said would enable a quadriplegic patient in Johnson County to continue receiving care.

Feds seize doctor's car, funds in probe (Deseret Morning News)

Federal authorities have seized bank accounts and a car belonging to a Brigham City physician, accusing him of prescribing hundreds of thousands of pills without bothering to examine patients.

A Lifeline Abroad for Iraqi Children (Washington Post)

BAGHDAD -- A couple of months after Capt. Jonathan Heavey, a Walter Reed Army Medical Center physician, arrived in Baghdad, an Iraqi doctor handed him the medical file of a 2-year-old boy with a life-threatening heart ailment. The doctor said the boy couldn't get the care he needed in Iraq.

Strangers may cheer you up, study says (International Herald Tribune)

How happy you are may depend on how happy your friends' friends' friends are. So says a new study — happiness is more contagious than previously thought.

Back in the saddle (Ada Evening News)

Tim McCarty, who left in 2005 after two seasons as East Central University’s head football coach to become assistant head coach and offensive line coach at Kansas State, has been re-hired to succeed Kurt Nichols as coach of the Tigers.