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3 March – Like medical boards across the US, the Texas Medical Board stated mission is to “protect and enhance the public’s health, safety and welfare by establishing and maintaining standards of excellence used in regulating the practice (more…)

By extrapolating evidence that OMSJ’s HIV Innocence Group has developed since 2009, it is becoming clear that thousands of Americans and millions around the world have been misdiagnosed as “HIV-positive” by clinicians who use flawed tests – tests that were never intended to detect HIV or HIV antibodies – to defraud taxpayers and insurers, by selling toxic drugs and unnecessary (more…)

Nancy Turner Banks MD spent twenty-five years practicing general obstetrics and gynecology during which she was also the director of outpatient gynecology at The North General Hospital in Harlem, New York.  She served as an attending physician at North General, Nyack Hospital in Nyack, New York, Columbia Presbyterian Medical (more…)

23 Nov CINCINNATI – After two days of deliberations, jurors have found Andre Davis guilty on 14 of 15 counts, with sentencing scheduled on December 21.  But in a state where prosecutors are not required to prove that Davis was infected with anything, the jury’s low (more…)

CINCINNATI — By Tuesday afternoon, a jury will be considering the case of a man accused of having sex without telling his partners he had tested HIV-positive.   Closing arguments began just before 10 a.m. Tuesday in the trial of Andre Davis, and ended a little over an hour later.  (more…)

“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.  It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was ‘not done’ to mention trousers in the presence of a lady.  Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodox (more…)

19 Nov | Cincinnati, OH – When police arrested Andre Davis for exposing several women to the virus that causes AIDS, the story spread fast.   By month’s end, 12 women claimed that Davis had sex with them – and fathered at least two children.  The trial began last week in (more…)

Aiken SC –  When police arrested Jason Young for threatening the lives of six women last January, it was hard to imagine that he would ever be free again.  Assistant Solicitor Brenda Brisbin had photographs, statements, lab tests and even secured an alleged admission.  For his crimes, Young faced a potential sentence of life in prison. (more…)

MCB 29 Palms – On Friday, a Court-martial Convening Authority (CMCA) dismissed all charges against a US Marine accused of exposing a sexual partner to HIV.

His freedom almost didn’t happen. (more…)

Wichita KS – By all accounts, the US Air Force veteran was a trusted and valued serviceman.  As a member of the 22^nd Maintenance Squadron, McConnell Air Force Base, Technical Sergeant David Gutierrez consistently received top performance evaluations for managing the service and repairs for the 22^nd Refueling Wing.  But instead of celebrating his twentieth anniversary with the USAF (more…)

Would you buy a home loan from a Countrywide loan rep?  Would you invest your life savings with Bernie Madoff?  Would you ask Casey Anthony to babysit your children?  Probably not. (more…)

Since 2004, the pharmaceutical industry has paid $9 billion to settle thousands of criminal and civil complaints related to the illegal marketing of drugs that kill or injure a million Americans EVERY YEAR from adverse drug reactions (ADRs).

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18 March|AP – LOS ANGELES — California has joined a whistleblower lawsuit that claims Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. bribed doctors to prescribe its drugs, costing insurers perhaps millions of dollars in the largest alleged health care fraud case ever handled by the state, Insurance (more…)

7 Jan | PBS – Antipsychotics are the top-selling class of drugs in the United States, with sales of $14.6 billion in 2009 alone. Their use in children and adolescents in the United States is increasingly prevalent (more…)

24 Dec – Between 1991-2010, there were 165 criminal and/or civil settlements by major pharmaceutical companies comprising of $19.8 billion in penalties.  Before 2000, qui tam lawsuits accounted for only 9% of settlements with the government.  But from 2001-2010, they comprised 67% of the billions in payouts. (more…)

14 Dec – Minnesota – Long before the rest of the country cared, Minnesota took aim at the pharmaceutical industry.  In 1993 it passed a novel law: If drug companies paid any of the state’s health providers to push their pills, the money had to be publicly reported. (more…)

2 Dec | ProPublica – This isn’t news but according to newly released documents from GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceutical company often paid ghostwriters to pen medical studies, editorials and even a textbook that listed physicians as the authors. (more…)

In their own words, see how AIDS drugs harm patients (more…)

19 Nov – In the pharmaceutical industry’s rush to get drugs to market, safety usually comes last. Long studies to truly assess a drug’s risks just delay profits after all — and if problems do emerge after medication hits the market, settlements are usually less than profits. Remember, Vioxx still made money. (more…)

20 Oct – The Ohio medical board concluded that pain physician William D. Leak had performed “unnecessary” nerve tests on 20 patients and subjected some to “an excessive number of invasive procedures,” including injections of agents that destroy nerve tissue.  Yet the finding, posted on the board’s public website, didn’t prevent Eli Lilly and Co. from using him (more…)

OMSJ recently received this note from a criminal HIV defendant we are currently assisting:

I talked with my attorney the other day and he told me that another outfit had contacted him about my case.  This outfit is called The Center for HIV Laws and Policy.  I didn’t contact them and wanted to advise you to see if you think they are on the up and up. (more…)

12 Sep (CHRONICLE) – In the early 1970s, a group of medical researchers decided to study an unusual question.  How would a medical audience respond to a lecture that was completely devoid of content, yet delivered with authority by a convincing phony?  To find out, the authors hired a distinguished-looking actor and gave him the name Dr. Myron L. Fox.  They fabricated an impressive CV for Dr. Fox and billed him as an expert in mathematics and human behavior. Finally, they provided him with a fake lecture composed largely of impressive-sounding gibberish, and had him deliver the lecture wearing a white coat to three medical audiences under the title “Mathematical Game Theory as Applied to Physician Education.” At the end of the lecture, the audience members filled out a questionnaire. (more…)

(English) – El año pasado, OMSJ identificó el medicamento contra el VIH Sustiva (Efavirenz) como algo más que un anti-retroviral (ARV), como un placebo altamente adictivo, que cuando se interrumpe su consumo, produce síntomas de abstinencia, que los clínicos de SIDA usaran rutinariamente para diagnosticar mal la aparición del SIDA.  (more…)