Federal prosecutors said the doctor distributed the opioid pain medication hydrocodone without a legitimate medical purpose.
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A former patient of Dr. George Chambers, the subject of a separate state medical board inquiry, has accused him of sexual assault and battery.
Francisco Echeverri died days after an aborted heart procedure at MountainView Hospital last year.
Jose Rivera filed a civil lawsuit against CSL Plasma in District Court after they told him he was HIV-positive and marked him as such on the National Donor Deferral Registry.
An investigative committee of the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners, which licenses physicians, has accused Dr. George Chambers of misconduct with three former patients.
The family of a Las Vegas man who was denied health insurance coverage for a specific type of lung cancer treatment, then later died, has won a $200 million civil verdict against his health insurance provider, according to court records.
A jury has awarded nearly $1.8 million to a Las Vegas man who lived for a decade without knowing that a 57-inch metal wire ran through his body after a surgical error.
As part of the national Stepping Up Initiative, Metropolitan Police Department officials are exploring new approaches to get low-level offenders into treatment instead of keeping them locked up.
The battle over maintaining life support for a 20-year-old Las Vegas woman continues this week in Reno. It focuses on the question of when is a person considered dead.
People practicing medicine without a license most often target the uninsured or those in the country illegally.