After the recent measles outbreak, even more attention has been focused on the debate over vaccines and the declining rate of childhood vaccination in many areas.
The military’s highest court has reversed an airman’s aggravated assault conviction for failing to disclose his HIV status before having unprotected sex at swinger parties.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments March 4 in one of the most important cases of the term, King v. Burwell, which could determine the fate of the Patient…
A Connecticut dentist who reportedly ignored repeated low-oxygen alarms and warnings from assistants that a sedated patient was deteriorating, continuing with tooth extractions until the patient flatlined in his chair…
In a first for the U.S. Army, the commandant of the Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, military prison where Chelsea Manning is being held has approved female hormone treatment.
A New Jersey lawsuit against a group that referred individuals to therapists who claimed to be able to help clients change their sexual orientation won’t be tried before this summer.
Religious employers who objected to the accommodation that lets them refuse to provide contraceptive coverage to their workers have lost their bid for an injunction in a federal appeals court.
A surgical center in Naples, Florida, claims that lawyers in Miami and New Jersey filed an unauthorized lawsuit on its behalf that it didn’t discover until the defendant filed a…
In what may be largest data breach ever reported by a health insurer, Anthem Inc. has announced that a hack attack discovered last week obtained personal information for as many…
A former Ohio National Guardsman who served in Iraq and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression is appealing his October municipal-court conviction for keeping registered therapy ducks.
A South Dakota law enacted in 1976 that was supposed to limit excessive damages in medical malpractice trials may have solved the perceived problem by entirely eliminating many such cases.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has sent cease-and-desist letters to four major retailers asking them to stop the sale of allegedly mislabeled store-brand herbal products.
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