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When was the San Diego VA hearing?

October 17, 2019. A congressional hearing was held on October 16, 2019, to examine the allegations by two whistleblowers — Martina Buck, Ph.D., a UCSD and VA research scientist and her husband, Mario Chojkier, M.D., UCSD professor of medicine and a liver specialist at the VA Medical Center — that veterans at the San Diego VA hospital were subjected ...

Who is the victim of medical ethics violations?

The victims of medical ethics violations are first, and foremost, individual human beings. The research, led in part by Dr. Samuel Ho from at least 2014 to 2016, involved collecting liver tissue, blood, stool and urine samples from patients suffering from alcoholism and liver disease to better understand their condition.

Is the VA's second report public?

The VA submitted a second report to the independent special counsel’s office, which is reviewing it. The report has not been made public yet. The Veterans Affairs department has an odious record of ethical violations in medical research at its VA hospitals. [ CNN. The VA’s Troubled History, 2014]

Did the VA take extra liver samples?

An internal report from the San Diego VA obtained by inewsource in February confirmed extra liver samples had been taken from the veterans during biopsies that were not necessary for their clinical care — they were only taken for research purposes.