Davidj Caputo News Today

PITTSBURGH – An Altoona couple have held to their claims that doctors at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center failed to follow up on the wife-plaintiff’s initial diagnosis of adenopathy, which she says led her to develop late-stage thyroid cancer.

PITTSBURGH – An Altoona couple alleges that doctors at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center failed to follow up on the wife-plaintiff’s initial diagnosis of adenopathy, which she says led her to develop late-stage thyroid cancer.

Whistleblowers trying to expose fraud have received lucrative payouts such as the one given to the Lehigh Valley man who blew the whistle on Olympus. But such outcomes are rare, even in major cases like the one that exposed medical test company Theranos as a sham.