In a rare move, federal authorities will allow pharmaceutical-grade cannabis to be imported from Canada for use in a novel research study for treating tremors in adults, the University of California, San Diego, announced Tuesday.
Read moreResearchers announced Monday that they are enrolling human subjects for a new drug to treat malaria, which killed nearly half a million people, most of them children in sub-Saharan Africa, two years ago.
Read moreA wrongful death lawsuit was filed in Minnesota state court Friday against a doctor by the family of the late pop star Prince, who said he died two years ago of an overdose of the potent drug fentanyl because the doctor did not treat him for his opiate addiction.
Read moreSen. John McCain has chosen to discontinue medical treatment for brain cancer, the Arizona senator’s family announced Friday.
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 moreCongo has approved the use of four more experimental treatments in the Ebola virus outbreak in its northeast, as health officials try to contain the spread amid the threat from armed groups in the region.
Read moreShort half a tongue and a thumb after a hellish hospital stay, a co-founder of the legendary rock band Jefferson Airplane brought a federal complaint Thursday against the doctors he says ended his ability to continue performing.
Read moreAffirming an order to pull a mentally disabled octogenarian off life support, an appeals court ruled Thursday that the patient’s prior capacity to make health care decisions had little bearing on the case.
Read moreThe Japanese government launched an investigation Friday into whether the nation’s medical schools have discriminated against female applicants, following revelations that one had done so for more than a decade.
Read moreSome patients in desperate need of a kidney transplant participated in a bold experiment where they received organs infected with hepatitis C. The gamble paid off.
Read moreJapan’s government urged a medical university to promptly disclose the results of an investigation into its admissions process after reports alleged it had altered the test scores of female applicants for years to deny them entry and ensure fewer women became doctors.
Read moreA Tokyo medical university faced a new allegation after a newspaper report Thursday that the school has allegedly discriminated against female applicants on grounds they tend to quit as doctors after starting families, causing staffing shortages.
Read moreThe share price of Stericycle dropped from $149 to $120.31 in a single day after the company’s false and misleading statements were revealed, shareholders of the medical waste disposal company say in a federal derivative complaint.
Read moreThe House has voted to repeal a tax on some medical devices that has helped finance President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.
Read moreThe national network for organ sharing imposes arbitrary and illegal geographical boundaries for donations, according to a federal lawsuit filed by a group of patients waiting for liver transplants.
Read moreConsumers claim in a class action that the fluticasone propionate nasal spray Flonase “can emit shards of glass when used,” and that Apotex did not recall all the bad batches, in L.A. Superior Court.
Read moreDoctors claims in an antitrust class action that the American Board of Medical Professions is conspiring to reduce public access to a simple skin cancer procedure, by requiring specialty certification for the outpatient surgery.
Read moreGeico brought a federal complaint Tuesday to recover more than $1.5 million from entities that claimed to have provided psychological and psychotherapy services to insured individuals who were involved in car collisions.
Read moreCasting itself as a scapegoat of the opioid epidemic, an drug-distribution trade group brought a federal complaint in protest of New York’s attempt to make Big Pharma pay $600 million toward the cost of treating drug abusers.
Read moreBritish police say a health care worker has been arrested on suspicion of murdering eight babies and trying to kill another six at a hospital neonatal unit in northwest England.
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