Medical Malpractice

CVS Caremark on Tuesday agreed to pay $36.7 million to settle allegations that the company overbilled Medicaid for the antacid ranitidine, a generic version of Zantac, for more than six years, the Chicago Tribune reports (Sachdev, Chicago Tri

The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in a case over a state rule intended to increase access to emergency contraception in pharmacies, the Springfield State Journal-Regist

LANSING, Mich. -- A $9 million settlement has been awarded to the estate of a 39-year-old construction worker who died after three doctors failed to diagnose what kind of infecti

A $9 million settlement has been awarded to the estate of a 39-year-old construction worker who died after three doctors failed to diagnose what kind of infection was

I am very disappointed by the editorial "Patients need caring doctors" (Bangkok Post, March 20) because you choose to believe what a woman has said, instead of the opinion of the specialist and the medical institut

MADISON — If you believe the onslaught of ads for the state Supreme Court race, one candidate has spent his career working to set criminals free and the other got where he is only because of polit

Iowa State University computer engineering professor Doug Jacobson played a key role in a landmark lawsuit by the music recording industry against music downloading and shar