Dutch officials say they will prosecute a nursing home doctor for euthanizing an elderly woman with dementia, the first time a doctor has been charged since the Netherlands legalized euthanasia in 2002.
Read moreA case involving an Idaho doctor accused of using his own semen to artificially inseminate a patient will move forward despite statute-of-limitations concerns, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Read moreBy ARITZ PARRA MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court ruled Monday that a doctor stole a newborn child nearly five
Read moreOne physician appointed to examine immigrants was convicted of solicitation of capital murder because he tried to hire a hit man to kill a dissatisfied patient in Houston. Another had a history of sexual misconduct and exploitation of female patients. And a third was disciplined for allowing her staff to dilute vaccines.
Read moreA 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 moreThe 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 Governor Bruce Rauner signed a bill Tuesday that will allow doctors to prescribe medical marijuana as a replacement for opioid painkillers.
Read moreAn 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 moreA 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 morePolice 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 moreA 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 moreFour 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.
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