IN the late 1970s and even 80s, it was not uncommon for physicians to assert that patients had needs, not rights. Patients had a “need”, and the doctor with his vast experience and training ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has imposed a $200,000 ...

Medical Students for Choice, a nonprofit formed in 1993 by medical students as a response to the lack of abortion education ...

Senior doctors responsible for monitoring cancer care in England and Wales are concerned failings in NHS services are contributing to up to half of patients are not getting the right treatment for ...

The clinicians and the patients, in many ways ... I sent him an email, he replied: I’ll talk when the time is right. He hasn’t in the past said very nice things about the FDA.