California’s medical regulator did not violate patients’ right to privacy when it pulled records from a state prescription-drug database in an investigation of a doctor accused of over-prescribing dangerous medications, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Read moreThree Kentucky residents who say they have a “legitimate and dire need” for medical cannabis claim in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that Kentucky’s laws on marijuana possession and trafficking violate the state’s own constitution.
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A federal judge Tuesday found it a simple call that the California Department of Public Health unlawfully fined a medical-waste disposal company $567,000 for disposing of biohazardous materials out of state.
Read moreMilwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. is the target of another federal lawsuit over a death in his jail, as family members of a man who died of thirst claim he was tortured in solitary confinement.
Read moreThe Texas Occupations Code permits licensed marriage and family therapists to diagnose a client’s emotional, mental and behavioral problems within their expertise, the state’s high court ruled, reversing a lower court.
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A Dallas County jury deliberated for one hour Monday before sentencing neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch to life in state prison for maiming an elderly patient in a botched surgery.
Read moreA Texan claims a county jail’s medical staff ignored his stomach-pain complaints and his appendix ruptured, opening a huge hole in his gut “with excrement oozing” for months before surgeons repaired his colon.
Read moreA Tennessee woman claims in court that she had to give birth in front of strangers in a hospital waiting room because she was told no rooms were available when she showed up in active labor.
Read moreTwo Tennessee residents claim in a patent lawsuit seeking $1 billion that Medtronic wrongfully used their “secret process” and “know how knowledge” for a mechanical resuscitator device and procedure for treating heart attacks.
Read moreA prostate cancer patient claims that after CentraCare Health System dba Coborn Cancer Center acknowledged that it gave him “improper” radiation treatment that caused painful, long-term complications, they gave him “a $25 gift card” to a gas station, in Stearns County Court.
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