Business
The settlement ends a case brought by the ex-head of UCLA’s orthopedic surgery department, who says the medical school allowed doctors to take industry payments that may have compromised patient care.
April 22, 2014
More scrutiny for UCLA’s School of Medicine
April 25, 2014
In the wake of a whistleblower lawsuit, a new study raises a red flag about universities’ financial ties to industry.
UC OKs paying surgeon $10 million in whistleblower-retaliation case
The University of California regents have agreed to pay nearly $8.5 million to settle two lawsuits alleging that a well-known UCLA spine surgeon failed to disclose his conflicts of interest with a leading device maker before using the company’s products in harmful surgeries.
July 29, 2016
Nearly 180 patients at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center may have been exposed to potentially deadly bacteria from contaminated medical scopes, and two deaths have already been linked to the outbreak.
Feb. 18, 2015
California
In a novel program, Los Angeles County health officials have joined forces with the private sector in a plan to divert thousands of pregnant women to private hospitals to ease the tremendous overcrowding of the county’s obstetrical system.
Sept. 26, 1990
Sidelined during a defining moment in medical history, future doctors across the nation are scrambling to find other ways to help fight the coronavirus.
May 2, 2020
American Health Services Corp. of Newport Beach said it has tentatively agreed to buy the medical-imaging center at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and the proposed center at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center for $7 million in cash and notes from International Imaging Inc., a subsidiary of Adventist Health Systems.
Aug. 13, 1987