Michigan doctor faces trial over misdiagnosing epilepsy
DETROIT (AP) — Mariah Martinez was 9 years old when she got bad news about her chronic headaches: A doctor said she had epilepsy. Over the next four years, the suburban Detroit girl took anti-seizure...
View ArticleFormer head of the CDC pleads guilty to violation
FILE- In this Aug. 24, 2018 file photo, Dr. Thomas Frieden, center leaves court in the Brooklyn borough of New York. On Tuesday, June 4, 2019, the former head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...
View ArticleDoctor accused of murder in 25 patient overdose deaths
Former critical care doctor William Husel, center, pleads not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of 25 hospital patients while appearing with defense attorney Richard Blake, right, in Franklin...
View Article$4.5M in settlements over deaths tied to doc in murder case
FILE – In this June 5, 2019 file photo former critical care doctor William Husel, center, pleads not guilty to murder charges while appearing with defense attorney Richard Blake, right, in Franklin...
View ArticleEx-MSU president awaits judge’s trial ruling in Nassar case
FILE – In this June 5, 2018 file photo, former Michigan State President Lou Anna Simon testifies before a Senate subcommittee in Washington. A judge may not rule for months on whether Simon, a former...
View ArticleFormer VA pathologist charged in deaths of 3 patients
FILE – In this Aug. 17, 2019 file photo provided by the Washington County, Arkansas Sheriff’s Department, Robert Levy is pictured in a booking photo. Levy, a pathologist fired from an Arkansas veterans...
View ArticleProsecutors: Kansas drug network tied to Chicago dismantled
Stephen McAllister, the U.S. attorney for Kansas, answers questions from reporters during a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019, in Topeka, Kan., about what authorities are calling a major...
View ArticleDoctor in murder case gets 2 new lawyers, June trial date
Defense attorney Jose Baez, right, talks to fired doctor William Husel during a court hearing Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019, in Columbus, Ohio. Husel is accused of ordering excessive painkiller doses for...
View ArticleAustrian doctor sues US for seizing patients’ abortion drugs
FILE – This June 15, 2001, file photo shows Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, founder of the Amsterdam-based Women On Waves Foundation, in Dublin, Ireland. The Austrian doctor who prescribes abortion drugs to...
View ArticleChaotic talks show challenge of reaching opioid settlement
CORRECTS STATE TO OHIO NOT PENNSYLVANIA – Medications that are are stored in the police headquarters that are and slated for destruction, are shown in a locked storage area, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019,...
View ArticleDoctor gets 2 years prison in bribe scam over painkiller
NEW YORK (AP) — A doctor once honored for his efforts in relieving patients’ chronic pain was sentenced to two years in prison Monday for accepting kickbacks in the form of speaking fees from a...
View ArticleDoctor at Missouri abortion clinic defends patient care
Dr.Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood, holds a plastic cannula, a piece of equipment Planned Parenthood uses during abortion procedures, as she answers questions by Planned...
View ArticleMaryland pediatrician convicted of sexually abusing patient
BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland pediatrician has been convicted of sexually abusing an 18-year-old patient he had been treating since she was a baby. News outlets report Dr. Ernesto Torres was convicted...
View ArticleProsecutors: 126 women complain about Virginia gynecologist
This undated photo provided by Western Tidewater Regional Jail shows Dr. Javaid Perwaiz. Federal prosecutors have accused Perwaiz of performing unnecessary, unwanted or unknown gynecological procedures...
View ArticleFeds: South Dakota doc made millions on unneeded surgeries
File-This 2009 file photo shows Dr. Wilson Asfora. The South Dakota neurosurgeon made millions of dollars by performing unnecessary and dangerous surgeries, including one that left a patient partially...
View ArticleDoctor of incapacitated woman who gave birth cedes license
FILE – This Jan. 25, 2019, file photo shows the Hacienda HealthCare, a long-term care facility in Phoenix where an incapacitated patient was raped and gave birth last year. A doctor who treated an...
View ArticleOhio State vows ‘monetary resolution’ for doctor’s victims
Brian Garrett, right, listens as Dan Ritchie, left, speaks during a meeting of the Ohio State University Board of Trustees on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, at the Longaberger Alumni House in Columbus, Ohio....
View ArticleDoctor among painkiller’s top dispensers is convicted
FILE – This June 17, 2019, file photo shows 5-mg pills of Oxycodone. The judge overseeing the bankruptcy case of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma will consider Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019 whether the...
View ArticleNurses defend Ohio doctor charged in deaths at hospital
FILE – In this June 5, 2019 file photo former critical care doctor William Husel, center, pleads not guilty to murder charges while appearing with defense attorney Richard Blake, right, in Franklin...
View ArticleDoctor charged in 25 deaths sues hospital for defamation
FILE – In this June 5, 2019 file photo former critical care doctor William Husel, center, pleads not guilty to murder charges while appearing with defense attorney Richard Blake, right, in Franklin...
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