Leadership from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs answered questions at a congressional hearing Wednesday about inewsource’s investigation into dangerous liver research conducted at the San Diego VA and poor oversight of the VA healthcare system. Read More »
Sometimes, jury duty is inspiring. Read about how an inewsource reporter’s day in the courthouse led to our latest investigation. Read More »
Congress will investigate a Veterans Affairs office after inewsource exposed shoddy reviews of a dangerous San Diego liver study. A new analysis shows the VA’s Office of the Medical Inspector has a history of poor investigations into veteran care. Read More »
The medical inspector’s investigations of the VA healthcare system were “unreasonable” in 16% of cases reviewed by the Office of Special Counsel. Read More »
A UCSD professor thinks he can end the centuries-old practice of female genital mutilation within the Maasai community by using economic incentives. Read More »
An anonymous whistleblower is claiming that UC San Diego is not following basic rules meant to protect human research subjects and values grant funding over safety. Read More »
Investigators found that hospital staff had seen the patient’s equipment malfunction before but never reported the problem like they were supposed to. Then they failed to monitor the patient while using the equipment. Read More »
Researchers from UCSD were involved in a study performed on babies in China that has been called unethical, risky and misleading. Read More »
A renowned UCSD eye doctor who is part of China's Thousand Talents Program has resigned amid inewsource's questions about his foreign government affiliations and businesses. Read More »
Doctors associated with the University of California San Diego and the local VA used biological samples taken from sick veterans to bolster a paper published this month in an academic research journal. Read More »
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