Infection and death rates from HIV/AIDS over the last two years pale in comparison to when the epidemic first broke out nearly 20 years ago, but a new study published Tuesday says thousands of more lives can be saved in developing countries if patients are tested and treated sooner.
Read moreEurope’s top human rights court has agreed to hear a case being brought against Belgium by a man whose mother was euthanized in 2012 for depression, the second case that implicates one of Belgium’s leading euthanasia doctors.
Read moreMost Americans say it would be OK to use gene-editing technology to create babies protected against a variety of diseases — but a new poll finds they’d draw the line at changing DNA so children are born smarter, faster or taller.
Read moreJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery Friday to remove two cancerous growths in her left lung, a U.S. Supreme Court spokeswoman said this morning.
Read moreA Navy veteran claims in superior court that she was sexually assaulted by Dr. Edgar Manzanera after the Department of Veterans’ Affairs referred her to his office at co-defendant QTC Medical Services Center in Temecula, Calif.; Manzanera, 38, has been criminally charged with assaulting five patients.
Read moreThough Italy expressly prohibits simultaneous enrollment in multiple degree courses, it must recognize the degrees a doctor who obtained degrees in dentistry and medicine at the same time, Europe’s highest court ruled Thursday.
Read moreBrazilian doctors are reporting the world’s first baby born to a woman with a uterus transplanted from a deceased donor.
Read moreBelgian officials are investigating whether doctors improperly euthanized a woman with autism, the first criminal investigation in a euthanasia case since the practice was legalized in 2002 in the European nation.
Read moreA state appeals court in California on Tuesday vacated a trial court ruling that the Golden State’s physician-assisted suicide law is unconstitutional, finding the plaintiffs who challenged the 2016 law lacked standing to sue.
Read moreDismissing criminal charges against two Michigan doctors, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that Congress did not have authority to pass a nationwide law banning female genital mutilation and that such regulations should be left to the states.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed some charges Tuesday against eight people — including two doctors — in the genital mutilation of nine girls at a suburban Detroit clinic, finding it’s up to states rather than Congress to regulate the practice.
Read morePoised to settle a jurisdictional issue that has bedeviled it for years, the Supreme Court took up a case Tuesday involving a publisher that was sued for faxing an advertisement to a West Virginia chiropractic office.
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“Seeking safety is not a crime.” Aid workers and staff members of Doctors Without Borders repeat these words during “Forced From Home,” an interactive tour educating Americans about the pressures that have made more than 68.5 million people asylum-seekers, migrants or refugees worldwide.
Read moreA case involving an Idaho doctor accused of using his own semen to artificially inseminate a patient will move forward despite statute-of-limitations concerns, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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Citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion services and the First Amendment, a Texas veterinarian claims in court that a state law prohibiting him from giving pet owners advice on the internet is unconstitutional.
Read moreContending that there is a secret dentistry cabal that monopolizes the certification of certain specialty practices, two groups dedicated to tooth implants shot back Wednesday with a federal class action.
Read moreOne physician appointed to examine immigrants was convicted of solicitation of capital murder because he tried to hire a hit man to kill a dissatisfied patient in Houston. Another had a history of sexual misconduct and exploitation of female patients. And a third was disciplined for allowing her staff to dilute vaccines.
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