Kansas clinic returns to court over telemedicine abortions

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas clinic stopped providing telemedicine abortions months ago and returned to court Wednesday after concluding that the legal climate remains uncertain despite a judge’s order late last year saying the state couldn’t stop the procedures. The clinic in Wichita operated by the Trust Women Foundation also faces a complaint over... Read More

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Abortion

May 20, 2019

Attorney: Ex-Ohio State football players among those abused

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An attorney preparing a lawsuit against Ohio State University on behalf of more than 50 former athletes who claim they were sexually abused by a team physician told The Associated Press on Saturday that most of those clients were football players from the school’s storied program, including some who went on... Read More

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April 17, 2019

Officials announce new measures to fight NY measles outbreak

NEW YORK (AP) — Officials trying to contain a measles outbreak in a county north of New York City on Tuesday ordered all unvaccinated people exposed to the disease barred from public gathering places, including houses of worship, for up to three weeks. The order, issued by Rockland County, comes one day after New York... Read More

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April 5, 2019

Ohio State doc’s accusers await probe findings a year later

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A year after Ohio State announced an investigation into allegations of decades-old sexual misconduct by a team doctor, his accusers are still waiting for the findings. Meanwhile, two related lawsuits are moving into mediation. A federal agency also launched a review of the school’s response to student complaints. No one has... Read More

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Richard Strauss

April 4, 2019

Doctor convicted in ‘ski rage’ attack on boy

VERNON, N.J. (AP) — A doctor accused of attacking a 12-year-old boy in a “ski rage” incident at a northern New Jersey resort has been convicted of child endangerment and other counts. But a Sussex County jury also acquitted Samuel Caruthers of aggravated assault and a weapons charge. The 47-year-old Caruthers could face up to... Read More

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March 19, 2019

Pediatrician gets at least 79 years for assaulting patients

EBENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania pediatrician was sentenced Monday to at least 79 years in prison for sexually assaulting 31 children, most of them patients, as his now-adult victims blasted not only their abuser but the system that let him get away with it for so long. Dr. Johnnie Barto of Johnstown was... Read More

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Johnnie Barto

March 18, 2019

Pediatrician to be sentenced for assaulting 31 children

EBENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania pediatrician is scheduled for sentencing Monday in the sexual assault of 31 children, most of them patients, in a case that state medical regulators failed to act on nearly two decades ago. Dr. Johnnie Barto of Johnstown will be sentenced on dozens of counts, including aggravated indecent assault... Read More

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Johnnie Barto

March 11, 2019

Kansas doctor sentenced to life in prison for patient death

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas doctor was sentenced to life in prison Friday for unlawfully prescribing medication blamed for an overdose death, the latest prosecution in a government crackdown on physicians amid an opioid epidemic. Steven R. Henson was immediately taken into custody following sentencing. There was an audible gasp in the packed courtroom... Read More

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Steven R. Henson

February 13, 2019

Settlement over USC doctor abuse requires school reforms

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys for women who said they were sexually abused by a longtime gynecologist at the University of Southern California say a $215 million settlement includes groundbreaking campus reforms. Attorneys say a proposed lawsuit settlement filed Tuesday in federal court will require the university to put procedures in place for identifying, preventing... Read More

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USC

February 11, 2019

Jury selection starts in $1B Florida Medicare fraud case

MIAMI (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin in the trial of a health care executive accused of defrauding Medicare of $1 billion, one of the nation’s biggest such cases. Jurors chosen beginning Monday will decide the fate of 50-year-old Philip Esformes, who operated a network of 30 nursing homes and assisted living facilities... Read More

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Medicare

January 18, 2019

Patient’s widow: Hospital safeguards ‘failed tremendously’

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The 44-year-old excavator was taken to the emergency room with shortness of breath. Breathing trouble also sent a 64-year-old woman to the same hospital. A third patient, a 79-year-old woman with health problems, was transferred from an assisted care facility. Now their relatives allege each died because employees at a hospital... Read More

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January 16, 2019

Filing: OxyContin maker forecast ‘blizzard of prescriptions’

BOSTON (AP) — A member of the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma told people at the prescription opioid painkiller’s launch party in the 1990s that it would be “followed by a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition,” according to court documents filed Tuesday. The details were made public in a case... Read More

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Opioids, OxyContin

January 16, 2019

Hospital: Doc gave near-death patients excessive pain meds

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An intensive care doctor ordered “significantly excessive and potentially fatal” doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients in the past few years after families asked that lifesaving measures be stopped, an Ohio hospital system announced after being sued by a family alleging an improper dose of fentanyl actively... Read More

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Mount Carmel West Hospital

January 11, 2019

Surgeons fear pelvic mesh lawsuits will spook patients

SEATTLE (AP) — Doctors who specialize in female pelvic medicine say lawsuits by four states, including Washington and California, over products used to treat pelvic floor disorders and incontinence might scare patients away from the best treatment options — or maybe even push the products off the market. Sixty-three Washington surgeons signed a letter to... Read More

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Pelvic Mesh

Kansas clinic returns to court over telemedicine abortions

Attorney: Ex-Ohio State football players among those abused

Officials announce new measures to fight NY measles outbreak

Ohio State doc’s accusers await probe findings a year later

Doctor convicted in ‘ski rage’ attack on boy

Pediatrician gets at least 79 years for assaulting patients

Pediatrician to be sentenced for assaulting 31 children

Kansas doctor sentenced to life in prison for patient death

Settlement over USC doctor abuse requires school reforms

Jury selection starts in $1B Florida Medicare fraud case

Patient’s widow: Hospital safeguards ‘failed tremendously’

Filing: OxyContin maker forecast ‘blizzard of prescriptions’

Hospital: Doc gave near-death patients excessive pain meds

Surgeons fear pelvic mesh lawsuits will spook patients

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