2008

May 09: Early version of bill has funding for testing, care
May 09: Lawyers foresee longer medical client lists
May 09: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: More infections surface
May 08: City officials decide most of fine to go to testing
May 08: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Grand jury enters medical case
May 07: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Judge restricts doctors' assets
May 03: Eye doctor abandons plans to buy clinics
May 02: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Three seek share of clinic's fine
May 02: Liver-disease specialist hired
May 02: Quality consultants, clinic, drugmaker sued in outbreak
May 01: Second doctor told to stop practicing
Apr 30: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Judge temporarily bans Desai
Apr 29: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: State seeks to suspend licenses
Apr 27: Clinic's doctors retain licenses
Apr 26: Tahoe surgery center reopens
Apr 26: Defamation lawsuit filed by doctor
Apr 26: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Letter: Suspend doctors
Apr 25: Police finalize pact to manage seized medical records
Apr 25: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Official: More patients at risk
Apr 24: County's hands tied in endoscopy clinic case
Apr 22: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Eighth hepatitis C case surfaces
Apr 19: No way to predict impact of outbreak
Apr 19: Ex-Desai colleagues open new offices
Apr 17: AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTERS: Mandatory accreditation urged
Apr 16: Desai organizing board member of bank
Apr 16: Tahoe surgery center can't see patients after inspection finds unsafe practices
Apr 16: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Two clinics may have buyer
Apr 16: Reid seeks federal funding for costs in hepatitis testing
Apr 13: LIVER DISEASE: Partnership would teach, treat
Apr 12: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Insurer broadens hepatitis caution
Apr 10: VARIETIES OF VIRAL HEPATITIS
Apr 10: A 'NEW NORMAL': LIFE AFTER HEPATITIS
Apr 09: Health crisis spurs $26 million request
Apr 09: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Seized records hard to sift through
Apr 08: Lawmakers broadcast outbreak advice
Apr 08: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Endoscopy clinic's license pulled
Apr 06: MONEYMAKING MENTALITY: Clinic assembly line described
Apr 05: HEPATITIS OUTBREAK: Endoscopy clinic license hearing set
Apr 04: Familiar face answers call for help resolving endoscopy center crisis
Apr 03: Gibbons changes board temporarily
Apr 03: Hepatitis crisis not on Congress' radar
Mar 30: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Hepatitis increases HIV worry
Mar 30: Doctors glad governor decided against ouster
Mar 29: MEDICAL BOARD: Effort to oust three dropped
Mar 29: Investigator says laws hinder clinic inquiry
Mar 28: Clinic patients can request test reports from labs
Mar 28: PEOPLE HAVE A CHANCE TO AIR OPINIONS
Mar 28: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Insurers drop clinics, doctors
Mar 28: State agency to re-inspect about 20 surgery centers
Mar 27: Phone surveys follow testing
Mar 26: JOHN L. SMITH: One way or another, Desai was always in control at endoscopy factory
Mar 25: Gibbons wants deal to get three off board
Mar 25: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Patients vent emotions
Mar 23: BUSINESS AND THE LAW: Going for head of class
Mar 23: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: 'Message of hope' on hepatitis
Mar 22: Ensign enters medical fray
Mar 21: Health alert lawyers gather
Mar 21: Letter: Doctor quits insurer
Mar 21: Veterans among thousands tested
Mar 21: Mayor: Clinic hearing to be wide-ranging
Mar 20: CANCER FIGHTER: TEST CAUGHT UP IN CONTROVERSY
Mar 20: Doctor defies Gibbons' call to quit state board
Mar 20: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Retiree's widow sues clinic
Mar 20: INSPECTIONS AT SURGERY CENTERS COMPLETED
Mar 20: City issues complaint against clinic
Mar 19: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: New hepatitis case surfaces
Mar 19: Henderson center's owners surrender business license
Mar 19: Governor vows to have last word on medical board
Mar 19: County OKs deal's cancellation
Mar 18: Crisis puts heat on Gibbons
Mar 18: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Medical officials don't budge
Mar 18: Officials investigate case of hepatitis C
Mar 17: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Shake-up hits medical board
Mar 16: GASTROENTEROLOGY CENTER PHYSICIANS
Mar 16: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Doctors can turn to friends
Mar 15: Three withdraw from inquiry
Mar 15: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Closed clinic may be underinsured
Mar 15: Inspectors cite two more surgery centers
Mar 14: LEGISLATIVE PANEL SEEKS PUBLIC INPUT
Mar 14: It's been hell being a Las Vegas doctor
Mar 14: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Lawyers: 100 fear infection
Mar 14: Doctor shortage seen as worse than outbreak
Mar 13: NEVADANS IN CONGRESS DISCUSS HEALTH ALERT
Mar 13: Agency late on medical reviews
Mar 12: SYRINGE, VIAL REUSE: Physician fired for missteps
Mar 12: Licensing bureau alters surgical centers' rules
Mar 12: Lawsuit alleges complaints not investigated
Mar 11: Patients fret about access to records
Mar 11: Six medical offices raided in probe into hepatitis C outbreak
Mar 11: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Problems engulf another clinic
Mar 11: Gibbons may support criminal charges
Mar 09: HEALTH SCANDALS: Doctors feeling pressure
Mar 08: SYRINGE REUSE: Another LV clinic implicated
Mar 08: CLINIC OWNER TO STOP PRACTICING MEDICINE
Mar 08: Gibbons opposed adding surveyors
Mar 07: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Lapses seen at more sites
Mar 07: FBI, IRS launch Medicare fraud investigations
Mar 07: Physicians' licenses targeted
Mar 07: Office permitted to reopen in NLV
Mar 07: Doctor ceases practice of medicine at board's request
Mar 06: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: LV patient feels at fault
Mar 06: Legislative health panel meeting set
Mar 06: Lawyers: Pain, suffering cap won't bring justice
Mar 06: Filing of new lawsuits brings total to 14
Mar 06: Nurses lose their licenses
Mar 05: Husband, wife suspect clinic source of infection
Mar 05: More clinic offices closed
Mar 05: Deficiencies bring fines against clinic
Mar 05: Five of six centers now closed by local entities
Mar 04: Related clinics closed
Mar 04: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Criminal inquiry starts
Mar 04: Scare brings back memories
Mar 04: Unsafe cost cuts 'common practice'
Mar 04: CDC chief: 'This should never happen'
Mar 03: County acts against medical centers
Mar 03: City rejects clinic's appeal of license revocation
Mar 02: 'They've almost given me a death sentence'
Mar 02: BLOOD-BORNE DISEASES: Patients on clinic's bottom line
Mar 01: Tourists at no risk of hepatitis B or C, health officials say
Mar 01: Clinic sued by patients who contracted virus
Mar 01: POSSIBLE EXPOSURE TO HEPATITIS, HIV: Endoscopy clinic shut down
Mar 01: CDC tries to allay fears
Mar 01: Labs offer reduced, no cost testing
Feb 29: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Feb 29: Berkley calls for hearing on clinic incidents
Feb 29: Insurers mum about implications
Feb 29: Clinic owner found success
Feb 29: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: Clinic outcry grows
Feb 28: EXPOSURE FEARED: 40,000 LV clinic patients urged to be tested for viruses