A judge newly assigned to decide if a Texas hospital can remove a 10-month-old girl from life support against her mother’s wishes said Thursday she was allowing more time for a facility to be found that would take Tinslee Lewis, even as a doctor said the most basic activity “causes pain.”
Read morePlanned Parenthood claims Alaska and its Board of Nursing unconstitutionally prohibit advanced practice clinicians from providing gynecological care, including “safe, early abortion and miscarriage care, which they are highly qualified to provide.”
Read moreA longtime certified professional midwife claims the Georgia Board of Nursing unconstitutionally threatens to fine her $500 every time she uses that title, “or even utters the verboten word ‘midwife’ to describe herself.”
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Doctors on Wednesday reported unusually good results from tests of two experimental drugs in women with an aggressive form of breast cancer that had spread widely and resisted many previous treatments.
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When Clara Massons was in labor with her son, a midwife climbed onto her bed and pushed down on Massons’ belly, saying she was helping to deliver her baby.
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The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a Kentucky law that requires doctors to show and describe ultrasound images to patients seeking abortions.
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A drug that curbs delusions in Parkinson’s patients did the same for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in a study that was stopped early because the benefit seemed clear.
Read moreFormer President Jimmy Carter was admitted to a south Georgia hospital over the weekend for treatment of a urinary tract infection, a spokeswoman said Monday.
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In a victory for the LGBT community, the state of Utah will ban the controversial practice of conversion therapy for children.
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More Americans are dying while still in the prime working years of the lives, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been released from a Baltimore hospital where she had been treated for a possible infection, the Supreme Court said.
Read moreSupreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized after experiencing chills and fever, the court said Saturday.
Read moreA federal judge blocked a Trump administration “conscience rule” late Tuesday that would have expanded protections for health care workers with religious objections to certain medical procedures, just two days before it was set to take effect.
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President Trump’s unscheduled weekend visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center raised suspicions about his health, despite White House officials’ insistence that he was merely getting a head start on his annual physical.
Read moreAbout two weeks after announcing her plan to provide Medicare for All without raising middle-class taxes, Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren explained Friday how she intends to launch that new health care system.
Read moreThe Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday introduced a second vaccine to fight a 15-month-old epidemic of Ebola in the east of the country, Doctors Without Borders said.
Read moreNew Zealand lawmakers voted Wednesday in favor of making euthanasia legal, paving the way for the issue to be put to voters in a referendum next year.
Read moreA federal court in Connecticut declined to dismiss a prisoner’s civil rights suit against a prison doctor. The prisoner alleges the physician was “deliberately indifferent towards his facial lesion, which was later diagnosed as basal cell carcinoma.” The doctor did not order a biopsy or a follow-up appointment.
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A Berlin zoo says a giant panda whose twin cubs have captured international attention has undergone a CT scan after veterinarians discovered one of his kidneys was smaller than the other.
Read moreDoctors at a Detroit hospital have performed what could be the first double lung transplant on a man whose lungs were damaged from vaping.
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