Former President Barack Obama offered veiled criticism of President Donald Trump in Virginia on Thursday, while campaigning for the Democratic candidate for governor in next month’s election.
Read moreA rape victim withdrew her lawsuit against one of three Uber executives Wednesday so she can focus on settlement negotiations with Uber, its former CEO Travis Kalanick and the fired executive she accuses of stealing her medical records in India.
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Building on a previous attempt, scientists have developed a strategy that could allow a patient’s immune system to more effectively combat HIV, according to findings published Thursday in the journal PLOS Pathogens.
Read moreAnthem Blue Cross Blue Shield’s policy limiting coverage of emergency room visits for patients in Georgia, Kentucky and Missouri could be putting lives at risk, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Read moreAccusing the Department of Homeland Security of fumbling its own rules, a hospital that sits just across Lake Ontario from Canada claims in a federal complaint that U.S. border agents improperly held one of its doctors to visa requirements from which he is exempt.
Read moreBritain’s High Court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit against an IVF clinic by a man who says his ex-wife forged his signature to conceive a child using an egg fertilized with his sperm.
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In the latest salvo against multidrug-resistant bacteria like E. coli and salmonella, researchers have turned to a new, smaller ally: light-activated nanoparticles.
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A Mississippi hospital faces a negligence lawsuit for claims that its now-imprisoned paramedic sexually assaulted a patient in the back of an ambulance while the driver recorded some of it on his cellphone.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Wednesday that a Kentucky law requiring abortion providers to perform an ultrasound and make the fetal heartbeat audible to the patient is unconstitutional.
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Planned Parenthood and its nurses and patients filed a federal class action challenging Maine’s “Physicians Only” rule that prohibits qualified nurses from performing abortions.
Read moreFlexing the antitrust muscles recently enacted for a class of medications called biologics, Pfizer accuses Johnson & Johnson in a federal complaint of stifling competition against its brand-name arthritis treatment.
Read moreThe American College of Physicians reaffirmed its opposition Monday to the expanding legalization of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, citing legal, clinical and other concerns in a position paper.
Read moreA class action filed in Chicago federal court claims that Pfizer misleads consumers with its maximum strength Robitussin, which the lawsuit says contains less cough suppressant and the same amount of expectorant as regular strength.
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Toxic stresses combined with poor infrastructure threaten hundreds of thousands of residents of U.S. communities on the Mexican border, according to new research that examines living conditions in the impoverished colonias.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Thursday denied immunity to a medical examiner who incorrectly classified an accidental death as a homicide – an error that led to the arrest and false prosecution of a prominent U.S. Open tennis referee.
Read moreTwo out of the three terminally ill plaintiffs who sued to overturn New York’s criminalization of physician-assisted suicide died last year. On Thursday, so did their surviving legal challenge.
Read moreA federal judge temporarily blocked part of a new anti-abortion law in Texas banning dilation and evacuation procedures, considered to be the safest and most common method used to terminate a pregnancy during the second trimester.
Read moreHealth insurance giant Aetna was hit with a federal class action Monday claiming it revealed HIV patients’ identities through settlement notice letters advising them they no longer have to order medications through the mail.
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A woman whose baby died after she gave birth in the Albuquerque jail has sued Bernalillo County and the medical staff at its Metropolitan Detention Center, saying they ignored her pleas for help during labor.
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A new look at research into cannabis as a treatment for chronic pain and post-traumatic stress disorder offers no definitive conclusions for or against the much-touted treatment, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said Monday.
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