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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 »
Health
‘Banished’ blood, stool samples from San Diego veterans used in research article, despite federal probe
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 »
Hustling Hope: Diabetes clinic founder headed to prison for attempted bribery
G. Ford Gilbert has been sentenced to 12 months in confinement stemming from a pay-to-play bribery conviction in Alabama. Read More »
UCSD has not told women with HIV of data breach, despite researchers’ pleas
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 »
Prominent UCSD eye doctor ‘on leave’ after inewsource investigation
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 »
UCSD eye doctor broke human research rules, putting patients at risk
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 »
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 »
Even the head of $6M liver study doesn’t know what’s going on at San Diego VA
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 »
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 »