This May 18, 2011 photo shows Alfred Sapse at his Las Vegas home. The unlicensed physician was sentenced, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013 in Las Vegas to 17 1/2 years in federal prison for heading a stem cell ...

An 84-year-old Las Vegas man was arrested on fraud charges Thursday after federal authorities accused him of duping patients and investors with claims that he was a retired physician who had developed ...

Alfred Sapse, an unlicensed physician described as a “modern-day Dr. Frankenstein,” was sentenced to 17 ½ years in federal prison Tuesday in a scheme to defraud chronically ill patients through an ...

Dr. Alfred Sapse calls his ideas "controversial." That's one way of putting it. Other scientists call them quackery. Sapse claims to know about a revolutionary technique of using stem-cell transplants ...

July 15, 2010, LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas man who purports to be a retired physician and allegedly caused over 100 chronically ill patients to undergo experimental stem cell implant procedures and ...

A Las Vegas man who misrepresented himself as a retired physician convinced more than 100 chronically ill patients to undergo experimental stem cell implant procedures that he claimed could cure ...

An unlicensed physician who conned 134 chronically ill patients over the last four years into undergoing experimental stem cell procedures he claimed could cure diseases like multiple sclerosis and ...

It was an exciting opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a promising pharmaceutical company. Or so Carole Aronin thought. "The project involved treating children with HIV for depression in ...

A Las Vegas doctor has been implanting stem cells harvested from placentas into patients with multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and other diseases in violation of federal law, according to a ...