Legislation aims to keep sex criminals out of medical practice
Illinois health care workers who are stripped of their licenses because of sex crime convictions would not be eligible to reapply for the license for at least five years under...
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Doctor accused of preying on patients And he’s still practicing
The patient from Mount Prospect was at a low point when she turned to Allan Aven, her longtime family physician, for help. Chronic vertigo and vomiting had left less than...
Doctor accused of preying on patients And he’s still practicing
The patient from Mount Prospect was at a low point when she turned to Allan Aven, her longtime family physician, for help. Chronic vertigo and vomiting had left less than...
Doctor accused of preying on patients And he’s still practicing
The patient from Mount Prospect was at a low point when she turned to Allan Aven, her longtime family physician, for help. Chronic vertigo and vomiting had left less than...
Sex-offending doctors left on honor system
State regulators waited nearly six years after Timothy Johnson was convicted of battery of a teenage patient to place the chiropractor on professional probation. Johnson, who allegedly fondled the girl...
Sex-offending doctors left on honor system
State regulators waited nearly six years after Timothy Johnson was convicted of battery of a teenage patient to place the chiropractor on professional probation. Johnson, who allegedly fondled the girl...
State seeking to shut surgical center run by doctor convicted of sexually abusing patient
State regulators are seeking to shut down a Chicago surgical center after a Tribune report revealed that its owner and medical director, Dr. Nercy Jafari, had continued to practice despite...
Dr. Ricardo Arze and sex abuse cases shows disconnect between law enforcement, state regulators of doctors
A 17-year-old girl reported to Berwyn police in 2003 that her doctor, Ricardo Arze, had pulled off her clothes and sexually assaulted her in his exam room, state records show....
Illinois to test every rape kit
Illinois on Tuesday became the first state to require the testing of all DNA evidence gathered from reported sex crimes under a new law that is expected to unearth thousands...
Doctor? Sexual abuser? Or both.
After undergoing ovarian surgery at an Oak Brook medical center in 2008, a Lemont woman was reviewing her bill and came across an unfamiliar doctor's name. When she checked him...