Nov 2, 2008
By: Becky Purser
The Telegraph - macon.com (GA)
Jurors went home for the weekend without a verdict Friday in the federal drug conspiracy trial of suspended Perry physician Spurgeon Green Jr., accused of wrongfully prescribing medications that led to more than a dozen patient deaths. [...]
Oct 14, 2008
By: Chris Frates
CBS News
Sexpert extraordinaire Dr. Drew Pinsky was on the Hill today talking about something decidedly unsexy: pain. The good doctor was in the House, and the Senate, to educate staffers on the need for a more systematic approach to pain management. [...]
Oct 12, 2008
By: Alex DeLuca
Pain Relief Network
I spoke to Billy’s wife briefly, recently, and am very happy to be able to report that Dr. Hurwitz is no longer in federal prison. He is currently in a half-way house in D.C… He is in a sort of “titration to house arrest” best I understand it… Once the titration is complete, he will be able to communicate freely again… [...]
Oct 6, 2008
By: Roxana Hegeman
Fort Mill Times
WICHITA, Kan. — Attorneys for a couple accused of running a so-called pill mill prosecutors have linked to 58 accidental overdose deaths have questioned the scientific reliability of proposed testimony from the government’s expert witnesses. [...]
Oct 3, 2008
Author Unknown
Kansas.com (KS)
Illegally Recorded Phone conversation between PRN President, Siobhan Reynolds, and Dr. Schneider:
Medical malpractice lawyers took notice when federal prosecutors released a recorded jailhouse phone call between indicted Haysville doctor Stephen Schneider and advocacy group leader Siobhan Reynolds.
Before Schneider and his wife Linda faced 34 criminal charges, they were fighting nearly a [...]
Defense Appeals Nurse’s Detention
Sep 3, 2008
By: Roxana Hegeman
Associated Press
WICHITA, Kan. – Defense attorneys told a federal judge on Tuesday that the charges against a Kansas nurse accused of unlawfully prescribing narcotic painkillers with her husband are not a typical drug dealing case.
