A former anesthesiologist was properly convicted of manslaughter for prescribing opioids to two patients who overdosed on the drugs, a New York appeals court ruled. Other patients and their families testified that his pain management clinic was essentially a “pill mill” where he excessively prescribed addictive drugs and ignored patients’ abuse of the meds.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who’s being held in a maximum-security prison in London while fighting extradition to the United States, is in such poor physical and mental health that he could die in prison, a group of doctors is warning.
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Ohio State University is committed to a “monetary resolution” for men sexually abused decades ago by team doctor Richard Strauss, school leaders said Thursday, though no settlement has been reached in lawsuits saying school officials ignored complaints and failed to stop him.
Read moreThe head of Missouri’s health administration, which is trying to revoke the license of the state’s last abortion clinic, on Tuesday attacked what he claims is a false narrative pushed by Planned Parenthood to vilify his agency.
Read moreAn Oklahoma judge blocked a new law Wednesday that threatens doctors with criminal charges unless they tell patients that medication abortions can be reversed, nine days before the law was scheduled to go into effect.
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Indiana’s attorney general said Friday that 165 sets of fetal remains have been found in the Chicago area inside a car owned by a late Indiana abortion doctor, boosting the total number of abandoned sets of fetal remains discovered at properties linked to him to more than 2,400.
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By the time drug enforcement agents swooped into his small medical office in Martinsville, Virginia, in 2017, Dr. Joel Smithers had prescribed about half a million doses of highly addictive opioids in two years.
Read moreA class action accuses Dr. Zouhair Kabbara, then of co-defendant Raleigh (W.Va.) General Hospital, of sexual assault; a second, individual complaint also accuses Kabbara of sexual assault, both in Raleigh County Court.
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The Nobel Peace Prize-winning surgeon whose hospital in war-torn Congo has treated more than 50,000 victims of sexual violence has launched a fund with the goal of providing reparations for survivors of conflicts around the world.
Read moreA Dutch doctor was found not guilty of murder Wednesday for performing euthanasia on an elderly patient with a severe case of Alzheimer’s disease.
Read moreThe Education Department is fining Michigan State University $4.5 million for failing to respond to sexual assault complaints against Dr. Larry Nassar.
Read moreA Dutch doctor went on trial in a landmark case Monday after euthanizing a patient with severe dementia who may have had second thoughts about dying, prosecutors said.
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A pathologist fired from an Arkansas veterans hospital after officials said he had been impaired while on duty was charged Tuesday with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of three patients who authorities say he misdiagnosed and whose records he altered to conceal his mistakes.
Read moreA Texas hospital system defamed a heart surgeon and ruined his practice by sharing skewed mortality data with his colleagues, a state appeals court ruled Thursday, upholding a $6 million jury award.
Read moreA former Michigan State University dean with oversight of now-imprisoned sports doctor Larry Nassar was ordered Wednesday to serve up to a year in jail after being convicted of neglect of duty and misconduct in office that stemmed from claims he sexually harassed students.
Read moreA former patient claims the Nebraska Medical Center knew that an orthopedic surgeon sexually assaulted women, including her, while they were under anesthesia, but did nothing to stop it.
Read moreA class action accuses St. James Healthcare, of Butte, Mont., of allowing Dr. Patrick McGree, who has pleaded guilty, to sexually assault patients and force them into “sexual servitude,” in Silver Bow County Court.
Read moreA federal judge has refused to dismiss Planned Parenthood’s challenge to an Idaho law mandating early abortions be done by physicians only, finding the health care provider has adequately shown the law would place “an obstacle in women’s path to seeking an abortion” in violation of the 14th Amendment.
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