Dutch Court Clears Doctor in Euthanasia of Dementia PatientSeptember 12, 2019 |
A court in the Netherlands on Wednesday acquitted a doctor who had been accused of unlawful euthanasia for administering a lethal injection to a patient with dementia, a case that raised questions about the clarity of the country’s law in such circumstances
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Philadelphia could become the first U.S. city to offer opioid users a place to inject drugs under medical supervision. But lawyers for the Trump administration are trying to block the effort, citing a 1980s-era law known as “the crackhouse statute.”
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Oklahoma Judge Finds Johnson & Johnson Fueled Opioid CrisisAugust 27, 2019 |
An Oklahoma judge on Monday found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state’s opioid crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million, more than twice the amount another drug manufacturer agreed to pay in a settlement
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Federal prosecutors accused the company of illegally marketing its powerful fentanyl painkiller and of defrauding government health care programs
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Julian Savulescu writes ,”Middle-distance runner Caster Semenya will need to take hormone-lowering agents, or have surgery, if she wishes to continue her career in her chosen athletic events… This ruling is flawed. On the basis of science and ethical reasoning, there are ten reasons CAS’s decision does not stand up.”
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Sanofi limited access to vaccine after deaths of children were reported in the Philippines
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Can You Be Executed for a Crime You Don’t Remember?February 28, 2019 |
Vernon Madison has dementia and no memory of murdering a police officer
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In a unanimous ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law, approved by San Francisco voters in June 2015, is an unconstitutional infringement on commercial speech
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