After deliberating for less than an hour, a jury today found Scott Roeder guilty of murdering a Kansas doctor who provided abortions, by shooting him as he attended church in…
Already the mother of two daughters, Samantha Burton had obtained prenatal care for her third pregnancy and voluntarily went to the hospital when she experienced symptoms she’d been told to…
Citing an unidentified law enforcement source, the Associated Press reports that prosecutors will seek an involuntary manslaughter indictment of Michael Jackson’s doctor.
A surgeon has been indicted by a federal grand jury in California for allegedly lying about the identity of a patient into whom a liver was transplanted in 2003 and…
A surrogate who is not biologically the mother of the twin girls she bore for her brother and his male partner is nonetheless their legal parent, a New Jersey judge…
Lincoln University in Pennsylvania instituted a policy in 2006 requiring students with a body mass index of over 30 to take a one-credit gym class to graduate.
Philadelphia juries have awarded two breast-cancer victims $103 million in punitive damages in two separate cases against Pfizer Inc. involving the marketing of the hormone replacement drug Prempro.
A jury in South Florida says Philip Morris USA must pay $300 million, including $244 million in punitive damages, to a 25-year Benson & Hedges smoker who argued that the…
The Nevada Supreme Court is considering whether pharmacies can be held liable for a fatal car accident caused by a woman who bought almost 4,500 doses of prescription painkillers in…
