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 moreA 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 moreIn 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 moreA 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 moreElizabeth 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 moreA 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 moreThe 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 moreVice 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 moreA 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 moreTwo 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 moreDr. 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.
Read moreCasting himself as a whistleblower in a federal complaint, a doctor says he lost his job after reporting Medicare overbilling to the D.C. City Council.
Read moreA New York surgeon convicted of draining more than $7 million from Medicare was sentenced Wednesday to 13 years in federal prison.
Read moreOhio Gov. John Kasich on Friday signed into law House Bill 214, which prohibits abortions if an unborn fetus has or may have Down syndrome.
Read moreConsidering whether to uphold a $1 million jury award, the Seventh Circuit heard Friday from an Indianapolis attorney who claims CVS pharmacists acted with actual malice when they told his patients he was under investigation for running a pill mill.
Read moreThe team doctor accused of sexually abusing dozens of young athletes on the U.S. gymnastics team and at Michigan State University was sentenced Thursday to 60 years on child pornography charges, and will likely spend the rest of his life in prison.
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Twenty-eight people claim in a federal antitrust lawsuit that Lyme disease victims are being forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for treatment because health insurers are denying coverage with bogus guidelines established by their paid consultants, who falsely say the disease can always be cured with a month of antibiotics.
Read moreFor the second time this month, Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit challenging Missouri’s abortion law, claiming in its latest complaint that a required complication plan for providers of medication abortion is unconstitutional.
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