ASCOG Advocate: July 24, 2013

The Kansas City slugger at bat.

On this date, in 1983, New York Yankees manager Billy Martin protested the amount of pine tar on the bat of a Kansas City player who just hit a go-ahead run.  The event became known as the "Pine Tar Incident."  

What was the name of the Kansas City player who hit the go-ahead home run?


A new study shows that echocardiograms, non-evasive ultrasounds of the heart, are overused.

The U.S. Department of Justice sues Florida for keeping children in nursing homes.

Lower levels of Vitamin D are linked to higher rate of disabilities according to a new study.

A California doctor was sentenced to only 3.5 years in prison for his role in defrauding Medicare out of nearly $3 million.  A Cleveland woman who bilked Ohio Medicaid out of $234,000 was sentenced to two years in prison.