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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 »
‘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 »