LOS ANGELES (28 March 2008)An Argentine doctor who served prison time for giving illegal anti-wrinkle injections to wealthy and celebrity clients has been arrested and could face deportation, immigration officials said Thursday. Daniel Tomas Fuente Serrano, who was jailed after … Continue reading
Los Angeles (28 March 2008): An Argentine doctor who served prison time for giving illegal anti-wrinkle injections to wealthy and celebrity clients has been arrested and could face deportation, immigration officials said Thursday. Daniel Tomas Fuente Serrano, who was jailed … Continue reading
Wellington: A New Zealand doctor has been fined for prescribing diet pills for a woman after he failed to detect a giant 14.7 kg cyst in her abdomen. The doctor, who was not named, was fined 22,500 dollars ($14,860) by … Continue reading
A GP branded a “sexual octopus” by a female patient has been found guilty of serious professional misconduct. Dr Neil Hughes sent “indecent and inappropriate” text messages to the patient, Miss A, the General Medical Council (GMC) concluded. Miss A, … Continue reading
A DOCTOR who turned hundreds of young patients into drugged ‘ zombies’ could be struck off after 100 new alleged victims came forward. The children’s families queued outside the offices of the General Medical Council yesterday to hand in letters … Continue reading
PROFESSOR Sir Roy Meadow, whose evidence led to three mothers being wrongly convicted of murdering their babies, was struck off the medical register yesterday. The 72-year- old doctor was found guilty of serious professional misconduct after he was found to … Continue reading
A FRENCH surgeon hired by a private hospital to treat Health Service patients botched nearly two-thirds of the operations, according to a leaked Government report. Roland Istria, 59, was brought in by the Nuffield Hospital in Cambridge to perform joint … Continue reading
A WOMAN died from cancer four years after her GP failed to act on test results showing she had the disease. Xenoulla Poxilaris should have been referred for surgery in 2001 after a biopsy revealed a mole removed from her … Continue reading