CMS Requests Calif. Probe of Patient Deaths at UC-Davis
This week, UC-Davis confirmed that CMS has asked California officials to investigate the cases of three brain cancer patients at the university who died after receiving experimental treatment. UC-Davis has accused two neurosurgeons of failing to secure proper approval from the university and the federal government before placing bacteria in patients' open head wounds to see whether infections would stimulate an immune response against the cancer.
- "UC Davis Cancer Care Probed After 3 Die" (Sacramento Bee/San Francisco Chronicle, 9/6).