Nurse Accused of Infanticide Attempt by Milk; Chiropractor’s Alleged Referral Scheme

As the trial of Lucy Letby continues, jurors in the U.K. heard that the former nurse allegedly tried to murder a premature baby by overfeeding her large amounts of milk through a nasogastric tube. (BBC)

The U.S. has filed a complaint against chiropractor Yury Gampel, along with the 15 labs and five companies that he owned, for alleged improper financial relationships with referring physicians. Prosecutors charge that Gampel and his Modern Vascular companies offered doctors the opportunity to invest in office-based labs in exchange for referring their Medicare and TRICARE patients to Modern Vascular for treatment of peripheral arterial disease. They also allege that Gampel pressured vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists to boost the number of invasive surgical procedures they performed by tracking procedures and setting aggressive weekly and monthly goals, according to the Department of Justice.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) asked the state’s Supreme Court to allow an investigation of “any and all wrongdoing in Florida with respect to COVID-19 vaccines.” In a petition, DeSantis requested a grand jury to investigate pharmaceutical companies and their chief executives, as well as medical associations’ involvement with the vaccines. (CNN)

Caitlin Bernard, MD, has dropped her lawsuit that aimed to block the Indiana attorney general’s investigation into her provision of an abortion to a 10-year-old from Ohio who was raped. (ABC News)

A Texas court has dismissed the case against Alan Braid, MD, the first physician accused of providing an abortion despite the state’s ban on the procedure after 6 weeks’ gestation. Braid had intentionally defied the law, he wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post in September 2021. (Texas Monthly)

A nurse in Texas has sued the U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs and his department over a Biden administration order to provide abortions and abortion counseling to veterans. Stephanie Carter, RN, said her religious beliefs prevent her from providing abortions. (FOX 44)

A New Jersey man was sentenced to 5 years in prison for selling more than $2.7 million worth of unregistered pesticides as disinfectants against SARS-CoV-2, according to the DOJ.

Florida physician Steven Chun, MD, was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for taking kickbacks for fentanyl spray Subsys. He’ll also have to forfeit about $279,000, the amount he received in kickbacks. (ABC7)

A Kentucky hospital system will pay $4.4 million to settle allegations that its faulty recordkeeping process allowed a pharmacy technician to divert 60,000 doses of opioids. (WHAS11)

Two New York women were arrested for allegedly paying illegal kickbacks and bribes to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in order to get medically unnecessary prescriptions filled by pharmacies they worked for, according to the DOJ.

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