Pushing back on claims that Viagra and Cialis accelerate the progression of skin cancer, an oncologist testified Thursday that she studied the data and found no plausible link between the erectile dysfunction drugs and melanoma.
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A study released Thursday indicates online requests for abortion medications are highest in states with restrictive policies that blocked a woman’s access to clinical services – barriers that include long waiting periods and high costs for in-clinic services.
Read moreA federal court in Arizona certified a “Medicaid subclass,” in a civil rights suit brought on behalf of children in the state’s foster care system, finding the class has sufficiently alleged that certain policies in the system put children at risk of not receiving necessary physical, dental and behavioral health services.
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A new report says more than one-third of women in four low-income countries in Africa and Asia were slapped, mocked, forcibly treated or otherwise abused during childbirth in health centers and suggests that such mistreatment occurs worldwide.
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Resistance to antibiotics has become an increasingly worrisome problem in both medicine and agriculture, where livestock and plants have lost the ability to resist diseases that strive to stay one step ahead. But scientists have discovered a “plant probiotic” in the soil of a remote Mexican jungle that helps plants grow more efficiently and defend against harmful bacteria.
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg announced a plan Monday to combat the rising costs of prescription drugs, saying it is time to fight pharmaceutical companies and make medications affordable for Americans.
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The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded Monday to two Americans and a British scientist for their discoveries of how the body’s cells sense and react to oxygen levels.
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Several thousand conservative activists marched through Paris on Sunday to protest a French bill that would give lesbian couples and single women access to in vitro fertilization and related procedures.
Read moreCalifornia has a compelling interest in stopping the proliferation of online pornography depicting child sexual abuse. But psychotherapists are testing the limits of that interest, arguing that a state law requiring them to report patients to the authorities if they divulge that they’ve viewed child pornography wrongly violates the core tenet of confidentiality.
Read moreThe manufacturers of over-the-counter heartburn medication Zantac are accused of not warning consumers of a side effect that can produce a known carcinogenic within the body, according to a federal class action lawsuit filed on Friday.
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A Dutch doctor claims the U.S. government seizes abortion medication she prescribed her online patients, breaching both their privacy and their health care rights.
Read moreFighting to block what could be America’s first regulated space where drug users get high under medical supervision, a federal prosecutor argued in court Thursday that the law makes no room for so-called safe injection sites.
Read moreCalifornia lawmakers on Wednesday approved legislation giving the state more oversight over doctors who help parents skirt mandatory school vaccinations – sending the contentious bill to Governor Gavin Newsom, who wants more changes.
Read moreA federal class action accuses Amazon.com of selling “banned, unsafe, mislabeled and/or recalled products on its website,” including at least 2,000 listings for toys and medications that lack warnings about health risks to children.
Read moreA Texas appeals court affirmed it was in the best interest of a schizophrenic man accused of stalking to order the administration of psychoactive medication after he was found incompetent to stand trial; a psychiatrist testified the man was OK to take the medication despite his concerns of weight gain and heart problems.
Read moreA Florida appeals court certified to the state supreme court a question “of great public importance:” whether caps on the number of medical marijuana licenses violate the Florida Constitution.”
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The World Health Organization says there has been a “dramatic resurgence” of measles in Europe, fueled in part by vaccine refusals, with nearly 90,000 people sickened by the virus in the first half of 2019.
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Lingering smoke in the Amazon is causing concern among Brazilians who say that respiratory problems — particularly among children and the elderly — have increased as fires in the region rage.
Read moreThe Trump administration has eliminated a protection that lets immigrants remain in the country while they or their relatives receive life-saving medical treatments or endure other hardships, immigration officials said in letters to families this month.
Read moreStanford Health Care, a nonprofit, claims Blue Shield of California owes it $14 million for providing medically necessary care, in Santa Clara County Court.
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