Would the U.S. Supreme Court uphold a mandatory health insurance plan? The issue is being debated on blogs and in op-eds, with some big differences of opinion emerging.
Complaints by 25 individuals from at least 11 states that their denture cream is unduly dangerous are being consolidated into a mass tort case before a federal judge in Miami.
In the first such prosecution in over 50 years, a 19-year-old Australian woman has been criminally charged for allegedly using a Chinese version of the RU486 morning-after drug to perform…
A dermatologist to former King of Pop Michael Jackson has sued a rival California physician for libel, contending that the doctor’s comments to a British tabloid newspaper has harmed his…
Two doctors at the center of a medical malpractice case have reportedly fled the country to avoid prosecution for allegedly stealing eggs and embryos from some female patients of a…
The general counsel of Pfizer Inc. will no longer oversee the drug manufacter’s compliance program under the terms of a record-breaking $2.3 billion criminal and civil settlement by the company…
In a speech yesterday on health care reform to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama offered few details of possible changes to medical malpractice laws that could accompany…
Seven doctors and nurses who apparently didn’t have enough to do while working overnight in a hospital emergency department last month reportedly decided to play a popular Facebook game.
A federal judge has sided with Pfizer in an unusual trademark dispute over its erectile disfunction drug Viagra, granting a permanent injunction banning a New York man from towing a…
In the first of about 900 federal Fosamax cases to go to trial, a lawyer for Merck & Co. argued in closing statements Wednesday that the drug didn’t cause the…
Five whistle-blowers will share $102 million as part of a record-breaking $2.3 billion settlement by Pfizer Inc. of a federal criminal probe and civil qui tam…
A $2.3 billion global settlement by Pfizer Inc. detailed by federal authorities today reportedly includes a number of record payments to resolve both a federal criminal probe and a pharmaceutical…
Hampered in its defense of a defamation suit by the death of its reporter, the St. Petersburg Times was hit with a libel judgment of more than $10 million on…
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