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The lead researcher pushed to tell 24 women in the project about the breach, but UCSD officials were concerned about the legal consequences. Read More »

UCSD Kang Zhang is “on leave” after an inewsource investigation exposed how the eye doctor put medical research subjects in harm’s way. Read More »

Dr. Kang Zhang is the chief of eye genetics at UCSD with a history of research violations that put patients in harm’s way for years. Read More »

President de la Torre announced she had made an executive decision to delay plans to reoccupy the building, which was scheduled for April 9. Read More »

Complaints led the university to close the Professional Studies and Fine Arts building last month, six weeks after it was notified of the problems. Read More »

Students and professors who occupied the building said the university did a poor job of notifying them about the odors. Read More »

Dr. Ramon Bataller is leading a huge, international project looking into alcoholic liver disease, and the San Diego VA has collected samples as part of that study. Read More »

Reporter Brad Racino shared his take on requesting public records and shared some of his favorite sources for finding open information. Read More »

An internal report from the San Diego VA obtained by inewsource reveals liver samples were taken from sick veterans without their permission for a study that provided no benefit to the patients. Read More »

Congress will hold a hearing into allegations by two whistleblowers of dangerous human research conducted at the San Diego VA medical center. Read More »