Staffing for a predicted patient surge, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday eased regulations to enable hospitals to quickly hire thousands of both licensed and to-be licensed nurses and doctors.
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The weather was lovely, the carnival celebration was lively and lasted for weeks, the floats hand-decorated and impressive. Excitement, cheer and a feeling of love for community, music and drink was in the air. But so was an invisible foe.
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China’s top disciplinary body has criticized how police handled the case of a Chinese doctor who was reprimanded for rumor-mongering after he shared a warning with others about the coronavirus in the early days of the outbreak.
Read moreEnraquita Lopez, M.D., sued the Medical Board of California for disciplining her for using the “fictitious” name Quita — the name she goes by — instead of her full name, a practice she says is no different from a doctor named Robert calling himself Bob, in Fresno County Court.
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Thai hospitals are deploying “ninja robots” to measure fevers and protect the health of overburdened medical workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Last month, Corin Barsily Goodwin, a 52-year-old semi-retired tutor from Renton, Washington, visited family in New York City and milled among throngs of international tourists. It wasn’t until she returned home that she noticed her sore throat.
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The en banc Sixth Circuit heard arguments Wednesday over Ohio’s ban on abortions involving fetuses with Down syndrome, with abortion providers again fighting to prevent the law from taking effect.
Read moreA former college wrestler sued the University of Michigan on Wednesday, claiming it allowed an athletic department doctor to sexually assault him and other students for 35 years from 1968 through 2003.
Read moreTwo women sued the Hospital Corporation of Utah dba Lakeview Hospital, claiming its Ob/Gyn Dr. Nathan Ward drugged and sexually abused women and children for years, and made child pornography which he distributed on the dark web, for which he was convicted.
Read moreTwelve hospitals, in four states, sued Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in federal court, claiming he illegally reduced the number of residents they could claim per year under a Medicare program for hospitals to train medical residents.
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A California judge on Friday put off deciding whether to grant prosecutors’ request to drop criminal charges against a California surgeon and his girlfriend who are accused of drugging and sexually assaulting seven women after gaining fame appearing on a reality TV show.
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The death of a doctor who was reprimanded for being the first to warn about China’s new virus triggered an outpouring of praise for him Friday and fury that Communist authorities put politics above public safety.
Read moreTwo women sued two doctors and Avanir Pharmaceuticals, claiming the doctors injured them by prescribing Avanir’s Nuedexta, used only to treat pseudobulbular effect, which gives people fits of laughter or crying, though they do not have the disease, and the doctors were taking benefits from Avanir when they did it, in Cuyahoga County Court.
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Belgium’s euthanasia law survived a key test on Friday when a high court acquitted three doctors of charges of manslaughter by poisoning in a landmark ruling involving a woman who suffered from mental problems.
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The wife of Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang says she was sexually assaulted by an obstetrician while she was pregnant with the couple’s first child.
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A lawyer for a Satanist argued before the Eighth Circuit on Thursday that Missouri’s law requiring physicians to give women a pro-life booklet and an ultrasound before providing an abortion violates her First Amendment rights.
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A Texas plastic surgeon serving life in prison for a murder-for-hire plot does not deserve a new trial even if cellphone data showing he met with the hitman months before the murder was improperly admitted as evidence, Texas’ highest criminal court ruled Wednesday.
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It’s no sci-fi surgery robot, but brain cancer patients could soon find themselves in the operating room with an electronic doctor.
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