A federal judge in Maryland Monday ruled that women seeking an abortion pill do not need to visit a clinic, hospital or medical office in person to obtain the medication during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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In the midst of a pandemic, millions of patients have become familiar with telemedicine. But a doctor in Italy just completed a procedure that could inspire the next wave of futuristic medicine: telesurgery.
Read moreThe United States sued Luke John Flint, of Louisville, dba coronavaccine.center, coronavaccine.today, coronatesting.site, coronatesting.center, coronavaccine.shop, coronavaccine.club, and covid19vaccine.center, for selling bogus coronavirus “vaccine and related supplies,” in federal court.
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As the Trump administration tries to force public schools to resume in-person education, public health experts warn that a one-size-fits-all reopening could drive infection and death rates even higher.
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Texas’ governor announced restrictions on elective surgeries Thursday and county officials in Fort Worth ordered face masks in local businesses, as the state grapples with a spike in Covid-19 cases after months of battling the pandemic.
Read moreWithout a cure for Covid-19 — if not a vaccine or reliable treatment — the world’s wishes to go back to normal remain wistful, but British scientists announced Tuesday the possibility that a commonly prescribed steroid may reduce hospitalized deaths by more than 30%.
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French researchers caution that reopening too quickly — without a vaccine or herd immunity — greatly heightens the risk of a second coronavirus wave.
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With an eye toward ending a saga of preventable deaths from hepatitis C in Florida jails, inmates are fighting to preserve a court order that forces Sunshine State prisons to treat early stages of the disease.
Read moreA malaria drug that President Trump said he took to try to prevent Covid-19 proved ineffective for that in the first large, high-quality study to test it in people in close contact with someone with the disease.
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The World Health Organization said the U.S. should reconsider its decision to withdraw, part of a muted response Monday where the global health agency had to confront theories from some doctors that the novel coronavirus may have mutated into a less virulent form.
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With the coronavirus pandemic spreading faster in the developing world, the World Health Organization and national leaders on Friday launched a plea to ensure patents for drugs and vaccines developed to combat Covid-19 are shared around the world to ensure even the poorest can be treated.
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Tennessee will soon stop providing the names and addresses of Covid-19 patients to first responders, after initially arguing that doing so would protect those on the front line.
Read moreA veterinarian’s assistant sued her former employer in Placer County Court, claiming the vet did nothing to stop her from being sexually harassed by a regular client who was known to be abusive and “had come into the office with his girlfriend on a leash and had treated her in a subservient and abusive way.”
Read moreA former director of an Ohio memory-loss clinic accused by dozens of patients of falsely diagnosing them with Alzheimer’s disease has been indicted on federal fraud charges.
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There are no daily public displays of gratitude for Russian doctors and nurses during the coronavirus pandemic, as there are in the West. Instead of applause, they face mistrust, low pay and open hostility.
Read moreRepublican political operatives are recruiting “extremely pro-Trump” doctors to go on television to prescribe reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible, without meeting safety benchmarks proposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.
Read moreA federal court in Oklahoma entered a temporary restraining order against Xephyr LLC dba N-Ergetics and its owners requiring them to stop distributing colloidal silver, which they were selling as a treatment for Covid-19 and other diseases.
Read moreFederal prosecutors sued Xephyr LLC dba N-Ergetics and its owners Brad Brand, Derill J. Fussell, Linda Fussell, all of Atoka, Okla., for selling colloidal silver as a cure for Covid-19, in federal court.
Read moreCalifornia sued Knature Co. dba Insan Healing and its CEO Angela Oh, of Culver City, with selling “radish paste” as protection and treatment for Covid-19, in L.A. Superior Court.
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A church in Australia has been fined for unlawfully advertising a purported “miracle” coronavirus cure that contains bleach, the Therapeutic Goods Administration said Wednesday.
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