177 ABA Journal Healthcare & Pharmaceutics articles.
Robotic surgery, including the use of an instrument known as a laparoscopic power morcellator, made it possible for many women to undergo hysterectomies with minimal pain and scarring and make…
Nov 25, 2014 11:25 AM CST
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reportedly investigating possible flaws in medical devices that could allow hackers to gain control of the equipment and injure or kill patients.
Among…
Oct 23, 2014 6:15 AM CDT
A dispute over a death-row inmate’s claimed First Amendment right to information on execution drugs heads to the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal appeals court declined to hear the…
Jul 22, 2014 12:51 PM CDT
Five marijuana stores opened in Washington state on Tuesday, including Cannabis City, where Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes was the fourth person in line.
Holmes bought two two-gram bags of…
Jul 9, 2014 12:05 PM CDT
Due to a nationwide shortage of approved lethal injection drugs, states have had to scramble to come up with ways to execute inmates.
According to the Washington Post, Tuesday’s…
May 1, 2014 7:52 PM CDT
An Oklahoma judge struck the state’s lethal injection law as unconstitutional Wednesday, saying that it violated due process because it keeps secret from inmates the sources of drugs used in…
Mar 26, 2014 6:10 PM CDT
A lack of lethal injection drugs has led to the postponement, until next month, of two scheduled Oklahoma executions.
Sidestepping, at least for now, constitutional claims by two convicted murderers…
Mar 18, 2014 11:15 PM CDT
Death penalty states are taking elaborate steps to secure drugs for use in lethal injections, USA Today reports.
Prison officials from one state traveled to another to…
Mar 10, 2014 7:33 PM CDT
Mar 1, 2014 10:19 AM CST
Tennessee has executed only six inmates since 1960 and none since 2009. Now its attorney general wants execution dates set for 10 condemned killers.
Attorney General Robert Cooper asked the…
Dec 5, 2013 1:33 PM CST
A federal appeals court has upheld a court order that blocks importation of the lethal injection drug sodium thiopental, a sedative used to anesthetize inmates before they receive drugs that…
Jul 24, 2013 1:51 PM CDT
In the latest round of a hard-fought political battle over the issue of whether the so-called morning-after birth control pill should be available without a prescription to 15- and 16-year-olds,…
May 2, 2013 4:15 PM CDT
A California judge issued a tentative decision on Thursday finding prison officials failed to follow the law when adopting new state procedures for lethal injection.
If the judge’s decision is…
Dec 16, 2011 1:57 PM CST
The Food and Drug Administration was ready to approve a Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. proposal to sell the company’s Plan B One-Step emergency contraceptive to girls under age 17 over…
Dec 8, 2011 12:32 AM CST
A Swiss drug company has asked Nebraska officials to return a drug it made that the state plans to use for the execution of death row inmates.
The CEO of…
Nov 30, 2011 8:09 PM CST
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