Raped at 14, Shazia took the rare and courageous step of reporting the crime to Pakistani police, only to face a traumatic “virginity test” — a long-standing practice that denies justice to victims.
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After a federal judge had said it would not violate federal law for drug users to shoot up in a
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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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On a Saturday afternoon in March as Covid-19 was bearing down on New York City, a dozen scientists anxiously crowded around a computer in a suburban drug company’s lab.
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South Africa has announced that a new variant of the Covid-19 virus is driving the country’s current resurgence of the disease, which is seeing higher numbers of confirmed cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
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The Vatican on Monday declared that it is “morally acceptable” for Roman Catholics to receive Covid-19 vaccines based on research that used fetal tissue from abortions.
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U.S. health officials are seeing an astonishing lack of demand for Covid-19 medicines that may help keep infected people out of the hospital, drugs they rushed out to states over the past few weeks as deaths set new records.
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Scientists said Friday they had identified genetic variants that made patients more likely to develop severe Covid-19, in a breakthrough that could see new and existing drugs help patients survive the illness.
Read moreThe wild horse conservation group Return to Freedom sued the Bureau of Land Management to stop the agency from carrying out plans to spay wild mares using an invasive and inhumane surgical procedure.
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States and localities have just $340 million to distribute Covid-19 vaccines, an amount that Pennsylvania’s health secretary told a Senate subcommittee Thursday was “simply insufficient.”
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Acting on suggestions from hospitals, doctors and patients, U.S. health officials are proposing changes to medical privacy rules that could ease information sharing in crisis situations.
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A federal judge in Maryland has denied the Trump administration’s request to reinstate a rule that would require women to visit a hospital, clinic or medical office to obtain an abortion pill during the Covid-19 pandemic, noting that public health risks for patients only have grown worse.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit vacated in part the dismissal of a class action brought by HIV and AIDS patients who claim their employee-sponsored health plans, which require them to obtain their specialty medications through a designated pharmacy, force them to “forego essential counseling and consultation from specialty pharmacists.
Read moreThe Second Circuit upheld a ruling in favor of pharmaceutical company Bayer in a class action products liability dispute over the Mirena intrauterine device. The plaintiffs, who claimed the IUD caused them to develop idiopathic intracranial hypertension, failed to present reliable expert opinions.
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Britain’s High Court ruled Tuesday that children under 16 years old who are considering gender reassignment are unlikely to be able to give informed consent to medical treatment involving drugs that delay puberty.
Read moreA company has started selling the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, a leap for the field that could make it much easier for people to learn whether they have dementia. It also raises concern about the accuracy and impact of such life-altering news.
Read moreA transgender man’s equal protection claim related to the denial of his passport application can continue, a federal court in Nevada ruled. The State Department’s policy requiring a doctor to certify a transgender passport applicant’s gender change discriminates against the man, who could not sumit such a certification because his hormone therapy has been overseen by a nurse practitioner and he cannot afford additional treatment for his transition.
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Malaysia’s Top Glove Corp., the world’s largest maker of rubber gloves, said Tuesday it expects a two to four week delay in deliveries after more than 2,000 workers at its factories were infected by the coronavirus, raising the possibility of supply disruptions during the pandemic.
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A German lab is hoping to cut the time it takes to send coronavirus tests across Berlin by using drones, thereby avoiding the capital’s clogged roads.
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Just a day after the American death toll due to Covid-19 climbed to 250,000, senators spent more than two hours Thursday debating the wisdom in deploying an anti-malarial drug in the virus war.
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