Law & Politics

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Jack Gillum ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Another year, another headache for the Obama administration over a health care website. This one ...

By Shefali Luthra A federal database unveiled Tuesday afternoon details 4.4 million payments from pharmaceutical and medical technology companies to doctors and teaching hospitals, sparking concerns that consumers ...

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators are trying to help doctors spot counterfeit and unapproved drugs by raising awareness ...

By PAUL J. WEBER AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Sunday invoked comedian Joan Rivers’ death at a surgical clinic while defending ...

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A nonpartisan congressional agency is raising new questions about compliance with a key compromise on abortion that ...

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Texas asked a federal appeals court Friday to allow the state to immediately enforce a law requiring all ...

By Brad Broker As part of its campaign to improve access and care, the Department of Veterans Administration has announced a major recruiting plan to ...

By Brad Broker In their defense of the Second Amendment, the National Rifle Association (NRA) has managed to strip physicians of their First Amendment rights. ...

By Carrie Feibel, KUHF In a highly anticipated ruling, a federal judge in Austin struck down part of a Texas law that would have required all abortion clinics ...

By Lucy J. Cairns, MD Several factors have recently converged to make passage of a medical marijuana law in Pennsylvania a distinct possibility. First, public ...