Maine Governor Signs Bill Legalizing Assisted Suicide
Maine officially became the seventh state to legalize assisted suicide Wednesday when Gov. Janet Mills signed the practice into law after the state Senate sent it to her desk last week.
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Planned Parenthood, ACLU Sue Over ‘Refusal of Care’ Rule
Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union filed separate federal lawsuits Tuesday to block a rule that would let medical providers refuse or even withhold information about treatment based on so-called “conscience-based” objections.
Read moreOhio Doctor Charged With Murdering 25 Patients
An Ohio doctor was charged with murder Wednesday in the deaths of 25 hospital patients who authorities say were killed with deliberate overdoses of painkillers, many of them administered by other medical workers on his orders.
Read morePolicy Shift Ends Fetal-Tissue Research at Federal Level
Government scientists will no longer conduct medical research using human fetal tissue, following a policy shift announced Wednesday by the Trump administration.
Read moreMaine Legislators OK Assisted Suicide; Bill Goes to Governor
The Maine Legislature voted Tuesday to legalize assisted suicide, passing a bill that would allow doctors to prescribe terminally ill people a fatal dose of medication.
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A federal judge ordered Indiana to grant Whole Woman’s Health Alliance a license to operate a clinic that offers abortion services in South Bend, Indiana.
Read moreProsecutors Push Back on Enforcing Harsh Abortion Laws
New state abortion laws likely to become bogged down in legal challenges face another potential obstacle: prosecutors who refuse to enforce them.
Read moreHealth Department to Eliminate Transgender Protections
Civil rights groups responded with outrage Friday after the Trump administration announced it would rescind policies barring discrimination against transgender people seeking medical care.
Read moreAnthem Blue Cross
Three emergency clinics filed a class action against Anthem Blue Cross, accusing it of falsely telling members that out-of-network emergency service providers cannot bill patients for more than Anthem allows, in L.A. Superior Court.
Read moreKamala Harris Bill Addresses Racial Bias in Maternal Care
Senator Kamala Harris is offering a new bill to address racial disparities in maternal health care, one of several plans by 2020 Democratic presidential candidates on the issue.
Read moreOhio State Asked to Reveal Who Knew About Abuse
Administrators at Ohio State University should release the names of all coaches, trainers and personnel who knew of but failed to act on complaints about a now-dead team doctor who sexually abused male students for nearly two decades, said attorneys for some of the victims.
Read moreThomas Blasts Refusal to Close 70-Year-Old Federal Tort Loophole
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasted his colleagues Monday for refusing to hear a tort case brought against the United States by the husband of a Navy lieutenant who died during childbirth at a naval hospital.
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A federal judge refused to stay his injunction against a final, gag rule on federally funded health care providers, preventing them from giving patients information about abortion.
Read morePregnancy Deaths on Rise in US, With Minorities Most at Risk
Calling attention to the rising risk of women dying during pregnancy, new research shows black are three times more likely than whites to die in America from complications with their pregnancies.
Read moreDrugmakers Will Have to Reveal Prices in TV Ads
Drugmakers will be required to reveal the prices of their prescription medicines in those ever-present TV ads, the Trump administration is to announce on Wednesday, even as some insured patients pay thousands of dollars for critical medications.
Read moreInsys Exec Convicted of Bribing Doctors to Push Opioid
A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday in a case that exposed such marketing tactics as using a stripper-turned-sales-rep to give a physician a lap dance.
Read moreSpecialty Status of HIV Medications Debated at Sixth Circuit
An attorney representing a class of HIV-positive patients insured by BlueCross BlueShield argued before a Sixth Circuit panel Wednesday that the insurer’s designation of their prescriptions as specialty medications violates federal disability laws.
Read moreOlympic Runner Semenya Loses Appeal on Testosterone Rules
Olympic champion Caster Semenya lost her appeal Wednesday against rules governing unusually high testosterone in female runners, meaning she and other women like her will have to take medication to suppress their levels of the male sex hormone if they want to compete in certain events.
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