(CN) - The Affordable Care Act's individual mandate does not violate an Arizona man's right to "medical autonomy," the 9th Circuit ruled Thursday. Plaintiffs Nick Coons and Eric N. Novack challenged ...

Debates around the boundaries of medicine, law and personal autonomy took centre stage, and after a significant ruling by the ...

Just 44 percent of physicians owned their practice in 2022 compared with 76 percent in the early 1980s, according to a report from the American Medical Association. What does this shift mean for ...

May is the month most American medical students finally see four years of grueling work bear fruit. Most U.S. medical schools hold commencement exercises in May, conferring "doctor of medicine" ...

Passionately debated for over a century, compulsory vaccination was first addressed by the Supreme Court when Henning Jacobson challenged the state of Massachusetts after a $5 fine was imposed on him ...

In 1970, when New York lawmakers legalized abortion, 13 Republican state senators voted for it. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that there is a constitutional right to abortion.

PARIS — In an airless classroom in Paris City University one Friday afternoon in March, a group of 17 female health care professionals — some doctors, some midwives — gathered to spend the weekend ...