Hours after landing in New York on Saturday, a doctor at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic was forced to leave the country based on an executive order issued by President Donald Trump that bans visitors from seven predominantly Muslim...
After hearing from a company whose CEO was a campaign contributor, a congressional aide to Donald Trump's HHS nominee repeatedly pushed a federal health agency to remove a critical drug study from its website.
Critics maintain that the 21st Century Cures bill, which passed the House Wednesday, hasn't received the scrutiny that such sweeping legislation deserves.
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This week, Congress is expected to consider a bill promoting biomedical research and innovation that would also weaken requirements on pharmaceutical and medical device companies to disclose certain payments to doctors.
Forty-one health providers prescribed more than $5 million in drugs in 2011. Last year, that jumped to 514. "The trends in this space are troubling and don't show any signs of abating," a federal official said.
A South Dakota surgeon who has become an outspoken patient advocate now assists the medical malpractice attorney who represented the patient in the case in which he lied for his partner.
An investigative series of reports reveals that government agencies are unwilling, or unable, to accurately track the problem and that the medical community too often keeps it from public view, suggests ProPublica.
Insys, which has come under fire before for using doctors with troubled histories to promote or consult on its products, faces new claims from Illinois' attorney general.
Two new reports show maternal deaths and severe complications rose as the state slashed funding for family planning, but researchers and state officials say more information is needed to understand the trend.
