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

— A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts

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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 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, .

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) asked the state's Supreme Court to 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 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 , 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 in September 2021. (Texas Monthly)

A nurse in Texas has 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, .

Florida physician Steven Chun, MD, was sentenced to 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 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, .

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    Kristina Fiore leads MedPage’s enterprise & investigative reporting team. She’s been a medical journalist for more than a decade and her work has been recognized by Barlett & Steele, AHCJ, SABEW, and others. Send story tips to k.fiore@medpagetoday.com.