The Ohio hospital system where excessive painkiller doses were given to dozens of patients who died fired 23 nurses, pharmacists and managers Thursday and said it is changing leadership, a sign that professional fallout from the opioid scandal has expanded far beyond the intensive care doctor accused of ordering the drugs.
Read moreA Maryland appeals court found the Maryland Board of Physicians is entitled to immunity in a consolidated lawsuit from a doctor who advocated against vaccinations, saying they caused autism.
Read moreA German court has fined two gynecologists for violating a ban on advertising abortions, the first such case to be tried since the rules were loosened earlier this year.
Read moreAn Ohio doctor was charged with murder Wednesday in the deaths of 25 hospital patients who authorities say were killed with deliberate overdoses of painkillers, many of them administered by other medical workers on his orders.
Read moreRepublicans and Democrats may not be able to agree on much these days but a bipartisan push to stop surprise medical billing is coursing through Congress as health care industry leaders met with lawmakers Tuesday to urge support of legislation that removes the financial guesswork for patients.
Read moreAbortion providers represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging the Hoosier State’s new law banning a procedure that is the most common method of second-trimester abortions.
Read moreFederal authorities said Wednesday they have charged 60 people, including a doctor accused of trading drugs for sex and another of prescribing to his Facebook friends, for their roles in illegally prescribing and distributing millions of pills containing opioids and other drugs.
Read moreA bill that would make it a felony for a doctor not to perform lifesaving measures on a baby born alive during a failed abortion passed the North Carolina Senate on Monday night.
Read moreMartijn van Halen has every right to be angry at Jan Karbaat. The Dutch fertility doctor lied to his parents and used his own sperm to inseminate Van Halen’s mother. But, somehow, the 39-year-old Dutch landscape gardener doesn’t seem to harbor too much resentment.
Read moreReversing a federal judge, a divided Sixth Circuit panel ruled Thursday that a Kentucky law requiring abortion providers to perform an ultrasound and make the fetal heartbeat audible to the patient is constitutional.
Read moreHouse Democrats and Republicans joined forces Tuesday to tackle ways to rein in surprise medical bills that are fueling anxiety about health care costs.
Read moreA German federal court has rejected a man’s claim for compensation for what he argued was needless suffering caused to his sick father by a doctor’s efforts to keep him alive.
Read moreA California mother and daughter filed suit against a Sacramento doctor in state court on Tuesday, saying he artificially inseminated the mother with his own semen without permission and then performed gynecological exams on his own daughter unbeknownst to her for years.
Read moreDespite a recent flurry of high-profile activism by physicians against guns in the United States, a study released Friday found many political action groups for doctors donated more to candidates likely to oppose gun reform.
Read moreDepending on who you ask, a case on appeal Friday in the 11th Circuit is either the latest chapter in a saga of brazen health care fraud by Hospital Corporation of America or the work of an overzealous whistleblower looking to capitalize on the company’s past misdeeds.
Read moreCigna Health and Life Insurance waged “economic warfare” against a doctor because he quit its network, he claims in court, accusing the company of also falsely telling his patients he committed fraud, and encouraging them to find another doctor.
Read moreArkansas argued before the Eighth Circuit on Thursday that a federal judge was wrong to issue a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of a set of laws aimed at banning abortions that the state says dismember the fetus.
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