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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 »
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San Diego VA confirms liver samples taken from sick veterans without their consent
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 »
‘Oozing with blood’ – Congress to hold hearing on San Diego VA human research
Congress will hold a hearing into allegations by two whistleblowers of dangerous human research conducted at the San Diego VA medical center. Read More »
Doctors call California’s probe of opioid deaths a ‘witch hunt’
The Medical Board of California has launched investigations into doctors who prescribed opioids to patients who, perhaps months or years later, fatally overdosed. Read More »
Man behind controversial diabetes treatment pleads guilty in public corruption case
G. Ford Gilbert, the founder of a controversial diabetes treatment clinic, pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a state lawmaker in Alabama. Read More »
Rep. Peters asks for congressional hearings into San Diego VA human research
Rep. Scott Peters on Monday requested congressional hearings over allegations of dangerous human research at the VA San Diego Healthcare System. Read More »
Dangerous human research alleged at San Diego VA; Rep. Peters vows action
Two whistleblowers say dangerous medical research was performed on veterans suffering from alcoholism and liver disease at the San Diego VA. Read More »
Kindergarten vaccination rates decline in state and county; medical exemptions up
The vaccination rate for California kindergartners went down last school year, including in San Diego County, after hitting a record high the previous year. 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 »