2 Dead in Reported Hostage Situation at Texas Medical Office
A reported hostage situation at a Texas doctor’s office has ended with two people dead, authorities said.
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Chile Ex-President Frei Was Not Murdered: Appeals Court
An appeals court in Chile ruled Monday that ex-president Eduardo Frei’s death in 1982 was not murder, clearing six former agents of dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime who were convicted of “homicide by poisoning” and jailed.
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Legislator Who Questioned Black Hygiene to Lead Health Panel
A Republican lawmaker and doctor who questioned whether members of “the colored population” were disproportionately contracting the coronavirus because of their hygiene is drawing new criticism from Black lawmakers after his appointment to lead the Ohio Senate Health Committee.
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A federal court in New York ordered the Indian Health Service to release to the New York Times a report it commissioned of a private investigation into “numerous acts of rape and sexual abuse” committed against Native American children by former IHS pediatrician Stanley Patrick Weber. In 2018 and 2019, Weber was convicted of several charges in Montana and South Dakota.
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A federal court in California approved a $73 million settlement in a class action against the University of California brought by women who accused a former UCLA gynecologist of making inappropriate comments and performing “sexually invasive ‘examinations.’” The women say UCLA allowed James Heaps to continue seeing patients despite a “reputation for disturbing behavior since the 1980s.”
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California Desperately Searches for More Nurses and Doctors
Since the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the U.S., Sara Houze has been on the road — going from one hospital to another to care for COVID-19 patients on the brink of death.
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Arkansas Providers Make Last-Ditch Effort to Block Abortion Restrictions
The federal judge who temporarily blocked enforcement of a set of Arkansas abortion restrictions is once again being asked to rule on whether the four anti-abortion laws tangled up in court for years should finally take effect as early as Tuesday.
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Burdens and Case Law Debated in Close of Wisconsin Abortion Trial
The burdens presented by Wisconsin’s abortion laws were balanced against national precedent governing abortion access in federal court on Thursday as a bench trial for Planned Parenthood’s challenge to the laws came to a close.
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Federal Trial Begins Over Wisconsin Limits on Abortion Access
A bench trial for Planned Parenthood’s challenge to Wisconsin abortion laws kicked off Monday in federal court, where opening statements and witness testimony centered on restrictions on medication and suction abortions.
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Rehab Doctor Jailed for Health Care Fraud Argues for Retrial
Attorneys for a doctor convicted of health care fraud and illegally prescribing addictive opioids to patients at Florida drug treatment centers asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday to grant him a new trial.
Read moreCuban Doctors
A federal court in Washington, D.C., ruled that it has jurisdiction over the Pan American Health Organization as to some of the claims brought against it by four Cuban physicians now living in the U.S. who claim it provided or benefited from their forced labor in Brazil.
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French Doctor to Face Charges Over Hydroxychloroquine Claims
A controversial French professor who touts the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment — without evidence, scientists say — will appear before a disciplinary panel charged with ethics breaches, an order of doctors said Thursday.
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Medical Board Defends System of Certifying Doctors in 3rd Circuit Fight
The American Board of Internal Medicine urged the Third Circuit on Thursday to snuff out claims that its certification process for physicians is a predatory money grab.
Read moreGroped Actress
An actress cast for an advertisement promoting Montefiore Medical Center’s organ-donor and transplant program claims in court that one of the hospital’s surgeons groped her breast while she was “strapped to a surgical bed and mock-intubated,” pretending to be unconscious.
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Dutch Doctor Fathered 17 Children in New IVF Scandal
A deceased gynecologist has fathered at least 17 children with women thinking they were receiving sperm from anonymous donors, a Dutch hospital said Tuesday, in the latest IVF scandal to hit the country.
Read morePop Star Doctor
The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday that state courts do not have jurisdiction over a California doctor accused by Prince’s family of failing to provide proper medical care by not recommending addiction treatment for the late pop star.
Read moreMedical Rape
A San Francisco Bay Area woman has accused a fertility doctor of using his own sperm to impregnate her not once, but twice — rather than the anonymous donor she requested.
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Lawyers Spar Over Psychiatrist’s Analysis of Capital Gazette Shooter
Attorneys for the man who killed five people in a siege of the Capital Gazette’s Maryland newsroom fought Thursday to limit evidence from a psychiatrist who is ready to testify about the gunman’s mental state without having ever interviewed him.
Read moreTexas Medicaid
A group of Medicaid recipients sued the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, accusing it of not implementing a 2019 law that guaranteed the right of those with complex medical needs to have continuity of care with their established providers regardless of whether the providers are in-network or out-of-network.
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Russia to Let Dissident in Coma Fly to Berlin for Treatment
The family and allies of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has been in a coma for more than a day, were fighting Friday to get him flown to a top German medical facility from a Siberian hospital, but local doctors refused to authorize the transfer. After much wrangling, German physicians were allowed to see him, an associate said.
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