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Nurse Accused of Poisoning Pets; Health Exec Shoplifted From Target? Docs Sue Hacker

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A Florida nurse is accused of fatally her neighbor's two pet cats and pregnant chihuahua, killing the dog's eight puppies in the womb. Tamesha Knighten allegedly laced chicken with phorate, a pesticide, to kill the animals. (FOX 13)

Connor Bowman, MD, the former Mayo Clinic resident accused of fatally poisoning his wife, is now facing . (CNN)

A healthcare executive in New Mexico was despite making nearly $300,000 a year. (KOB 4)

Juror No. 1 in the "Take Care of Maya" trial , a Florida judge ruled, denying a motion from Johns Hopkins lawyers for a new trial based on juror misconduct. (FOX 13)

Former traveling nurse Timothy Jackson was for raping a patient at a Methodist Hospital in Gary, Indiana. (Times of Northwest Indiana)

A medical assistant in south Florida has been accused of at Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital. (WPLG)

New York anesthesiologist Paul Giacopelli, MD, was arrested for allegedly a woman on multiple occasions. (Journal News)

Two hospitals and an orthopedic group in New York in hopes of issuing a subpoena to get a cloud storage firm to surrender data the ransomware group allegedly stole from the organizations in an August data breach. (Becker's Health IT)

North Carolina's Novant Health has agreed to to settle a lawsuit brought by patients over its use of Meta Pixel to track and collect patient data. (WRAL News)

Andrew Bhatnager, PhD, who defended him in a fertility lawsuit involving a malfunction that resulted in the loss of 4,000 embryos and eggs, claiming that the attorney charged him excessive fees and interest on more than $175,000 in unpaid legal bills. (Cleveland.com)

A home healthcare company will pay almost $10 million to resolve claims that it falsely billed for in-home nursing and personal care when its employees weren't actually present in patients' homes, .

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    Kristina Fiore leads ѻý’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.