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G. Ford Gilbert has been sentenced to 12 months in confinement stemming from a pay-to-play bribery conviction in Alabama. Read More »
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Sharp apologizes, dozens more women join legal action over hospital’s covert video sting
After a week of embarrassing national media reports that Sharp Grossmont Hospital secretly videotaped some 1,800 women undergoing sensitive gynecologic surgery, a top Sharp official apologized. Read More »
Dozens of women sue Sharp Grossmont for secretly videotaping their surgeries
More than 80 women are suing Sharp Grossmont Hospital and Sharp Healthcare for videotaping them without their consent. Read More »
Hustling Hope: San Diego woman says controversial diabetes treatment endangered her health
A San Diego woman says she was put at risk of hospitalization last year after receiving a series of insulin infusions at Dr. James Novak’s Trina Health clinic in Pacific Beach. Read More »
Hustling Hope: Big name in medicine touted Trina diabetes treatment before founder’s indictment
Sacramento lawyer G. Ford Gilbert, the recently indicted founder of the national diabetes network Trina Health, hitched his clinic’s expansion plans to a big national name in organized medicine and health policy: Dr. Jack Lewin. Lewin was CEO of the California Medical Association for more than 11 years, CEO of the American College of Cardiology for more than five years ... Read More »
Hustling Hope: Montana couple sinks life savings into ‘miracle’ diabetes treatment
Ron Briggs used to call himself a “good cash cow for the medical industry.” That’s because every few weeks, an ambulance would rush across the rugged, cowboy town of Dillon, Montana, sirens blaring, to revive him from a diabetic coma. He and his wife, Julie, a strong and mothering woman where Ron is concerned, get choked up when they talk ... Read More »
Hustling Hope: San Diego doctor runs controversial diabetes clinic
Just about every Tuesday morning around 7:30, John McCreary of Poway can be found waiting for Dr. James Novak’s office to open. Almost always, McCreary said, he’s the first one there. Novak’s practice is listed as the only one in the San Diego area offering Trina Health’s “Artificial Pancreas Treatment,” a four-hour IV insulin infusion procedure for people with diabetes. ... Read More »
Hustling Hope: Doctors debunk diabetes treatment as fraud charges hit clinic executive
Just imagine: A nonsurgical treatment that helps millions of people with complications from diabetes restore vision, repair damaged kidneys, and reverse heart disease and cognitive decline. A treatment that heals wounds in their legs and feet, repairs damage from stroke, and eliminates a common type of diabetic nerve pain called neuropathy. That’s what lawyer G. Ford Gilbert and his network of ... Read More »
National experts and state lawmaker react to diabetes amputation increase
A state legislator who is leading an inquiry into the escalating rates of diabetes and heart disease highlighted inewsource data. Read More »
Diabetes-related amputations up significantly in California — and San Diego
Clinicians are amputating more toes, legs, ankles and feet of patients with diabetes in California — and San Diego County in particular — in a “shocking” trend that has mystified diabetes experts here and across the country. Statewide, lower-limb amputations increased by more than 31 percent from 2010 to 2016 when adjusted for population change. In San Diego County, the ... Read More »