All Entries in the "Medical Malpractice" Category
President Announces Plans To Crack Down On Health Care Fraud
The Boston Globe: “President Barack Obama said Tuesday he’ll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system. … Obama’s anti-fraud announcement was aimed directly at the political middle.” “Waste and fraud are pervasive problems for Medicare [...]
NYT Editorial Calls On Abortion-Rights Supporters ‘To Make Their Voices Heard’
In the “three years since the Supreme Court’s conservative majority abruptly departed from precedent to uphold a federal ban on a particular method of abortion, … foes of reproductive freedom are pressing new attacks on women’s rights and health,” a New York Times editorial states. Utah Gov…
Mind Calls For Regulation Of Counsellors And Psychotherapists, UK
Mind today presents new evidence to illustrate the barriers people face when trying to make a complaint about counsellors and psychotherapists and urgently calls for independent statutory regulation to help protect clients from malpractice (1)…
Utah Gov. Signs Revised Bill Allowing Criminal Charges Against Women For Illegal Abortions
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) on Monday signed a bill (HB 462) that would allow prosecutors to bring criminal homicide charges against women who arrange illegal abortions, the Salt Lake Tribune reports (Gehrke, Salt Lake Tribune, 3/8). An earlier version of the bill (HB 12), sponsored by state Rep…
Supreme Court To Consider Legality Of Lawsuits Against Vaccine Makers
The Associated Press: “The Supreme Court will decide whether drug makers can be sued by parents who claim their children suffered serious health problems from vaccines…
New Cases Of Genocide Often Denied After Holocaust
Experiences from the Holocaust led to the international community coming together and agreeing on the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Despite this, more cases of genocide occurred during the 20th century than during any other century…
Former Deputy Kansas AG Seeks To Have Attorney Removed From Ethics Panel
Former Kansas Deputy Attorney General Eric Rucker is attempting to have Patricia Dengler, a Wichita attorney, disqualified from a panel considering an abortion-related ethics complaint against him, the AP/Fort Scott Tribune reports…
Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Office Of Legal Counsel Nominee Johnsen For Second Time
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted 12-7 along party lines to approve the nomination of Dawn Johnsen to be assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, CQ Today reports. The committee had already approved Johnsen nearly one year ago, but her nomination was never brought to the full Senate…
Tetanus, Hepatitis Vaccination Campaign Launched In Chile Amid Fears Of Disease Outbreaks
“Chile launched a hepatitis and tetanus vaccination campaign Friday and doctors warned of outbreaks of diarrhea and infection among thousands of people displaced by the earthquake and the tsunami that heavily damaged or destroyed 36 hospitals and made garbage dumps of coastal towns and cities,” the Associated Press reports…
Violent Crime ‘Race Gap’ Narrows, But Persists In U.S.
The U.S. ‘race gap’ in the commission of violent crime has narrowed substantially, yet persists – with murder arrest rates for African Americans still out-distancing those for whites – concludes a new 80-city study by the University of Maryland, Florida State University and the University of Oregon…
Sociology Professor Reveals That It’s Who You Kill That Matters
A defendant is much more likely to be sentenced to death if he or she kills a “high-status” victim, according to new research by Scott Phillips, associate professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Denver (DU)…