Medical educators and health professionals warn that new federal student loan caps in President Donald Trump's tax cut law could make it more expensive for many people to become doctors and could ...

The Michigan House Judiciary Committee met last week and passed HB 6085, which increases the current medical malpractice caps, makes death cases automatically qualify for the “upper” cap and exempts ...

A group that accredits medical residency programs says lifting any caps on work hours of doctors-in-training will have to wait another year while patient safety and other issues are more closely ...

A state law is now effect to limit medical malpractice claims for non-economic or so-called “pain and suffering” damages. Governor Kim Reynolds was surrounded by a large crowd yesterday as she held a ...

Researchers from the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute have produced the first national estimate of how many medical students would be affected by new federal loan restrictions imposed by the 2025 ...

Tort reform has been on doctors' wish lists for decades. Supporters of reform say it would reduce frivolous claims and stop doctors from practicing defensive medicine, while some consumer groups say ...

TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) - The case started with a dental assistant who went into surgery for carpal-tunnel syndrome and ended up suffering a perforated esophagus. Now, nearly eight years later, the ...

PAYOUT CAPS AND MEDICAL MALPRACTICE….WARNING: Extreme tedium ahead! A few days ago I wrote a post about a study on medical malpractice premiums done by Weiss Ratings. You should read that post before ...

How much was Sheldon Sussman’s life worth? To a jury, $2.8 million. According to the state, though, Sussman’s wife of 20 years should collect no more than $1.5 million. The question of how much Rhoda ...

TALLAHASSEE — Many Republican lawmakers in Florida haven’t hidden their skepticism about the use of marijuana as a medical palliative. After voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment ...