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Doctor Whose Divorce Led to Firing Prevails at Top EU Court
A Catholic hospital in Germany discriminated by ousting a doctor from a supervisory role after finding out that he had divorced and remarried, the European Union’s highest court ruled Tuesday.
Read moreNevada High Court Says Execution Doctor’s Name Stays Secret
The name of the physician picked to attend a state inmate’s execution can remain secret, even from drug makers suing to ban the use of their products in the twice-postponed lethal injection, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Read moreIllinois Approves Medical Pot as Opioid Alternative
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed a bill Tuesday that will allow doctors to prescribe medical marijuana as a replacement for opioid painkillers.
Read moreDoctor Accused of Killing Family With Gas-Filled Yoga Ball
An anesthesiologist is on trial in Hong Kong charged with killing his wife and daughter by placing a leaking yoga ball filled with carbon monoxide in their car.
Read moreTexas Doctor Found Guilty of Assaulting Drugged Patient
A Texas jury on Thursday convicted a doctor for raping a heavily sedated patient in 2013, not buying his defense lawyers’ claims that the victim had seduced him to make her husband jealous and get a legal settlement.
Read moreSuspect in Killing of Former Bush Doctor Found Dead
Police said Friday that a man suspected of killing George H.W. Bush’s former doctor to avenge his mother’s death on an operating table 20 years ago was found dead of an apparent suicide after an encounter with police.
Read morePolice: Bush’s Doctor’s Killing May Have Been Act of Revenge
A man suspected of killing one of former President George H.W. Bush’s doctors may have been seeking revenge for his mother, who died on the doctor’s operating table more than 20 years ago, authorities said Wednesday.
Read moreFormer Wrestlers Say Ohio State Ignored Doctor’s Abuse
Four former student-athletes on the Ohio State University wrestling team claim the school did not protect athletes from a team doctor accused of sexually abusing potentially hundreds of students over two decades.
Read moreFamed Doctor Fires Back Over Critical News Report
A world-famous heart surgeon who has performed more than 1,000 transplants turned his metaphorical scalpel on an investigative report questioning the ethics of his research by filing a defamation lawsuit against ProPublica and Texas’ biggest newspaper.
Read moreHundreds Charged in Massive Opioid Crackdown
In what Attorney General Jeff Session called the biggest health care fraud enforcement action in U.S. history, the Justice Department said Thursday that it charged 601 people in dozens of cases involving opioid prescriptions.
Read moreHospital Faces Suit Over Physician’s Fatal Rampage
A patient who was shot in the leg last year at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital brought a lawsuit Monday over the deadly rampage carried out by a disgruntled former physician.
Read moreTheranos Founder, Ex-President Accused of Defrauding Investors
Elizabeth Holmes, founder of biotech firm Theranos, and the company’s former president and chief operating officer were indicted on fraud charges Friday, accused of lying about the reliability of its portable blood testers.
Read moreJudge OKs Missouri Rule Aimed at Abortion Pills
A federal judge ruled Monday that Planned Parenthood cannot offer medication-induced abortions at two Missouri clinics, finding it did not prove that a state rule requiring a nearby doctor to be available around the clock constitutes a substantial burden to many women seeking abortions.
Read moreHigh Court Allows Arkansas Abortion Law to Take Effect
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear an appeal over the constitutionality of an Arkansas law that regulates medication abortions performed in early pregnancy.
Read morePence Physician Resigns in Wake of Jackson Flap
Vice President Mike Pence’s personal physician resigned Friday in move seen tied to the collapse of Dr. Ronny Jackson’s nomination for secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Read moreLawsuit Claims Fertility Doctor Used His Own Sperm to Impregnate Patient
A DNA sample sent to Ancestry.com in 2017 led to the filing of a federal lawsuit Friday, as it was discovered that a fertility doctor allegedly used his own sperm to inseminate a patient in 1980.
Read moreFeds Charge Former Doctor, Partner in $250 Million Fraud Indictment
Two Southern California men were arrested Wednesday on the suspicion of filing more than $250 million in fraudulent medical bills connected to the 1-800-GET-THIN Lap-Band surgery business.
Read moreSouth Florida Eye Doctor Gets 17 Years for Medicare Fraud
Dr. Salomon Melgen, a retinal specialist in Palm Beach County, Florida, was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison and ordered to pay $42,6 million on charges he bilked Medicare out of $73 million over two decades.
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