Patients with cancer have a right to their clinicians’ best efforts as healers and as caring human beings. They have a right to receive coordinated, timely care; to be listened to with compassion ...

One in every 10 patients experience harm in healthcare, and about 50% of harms are preventable, according to an April 18 news release from WHO. The Patient Safety Rights Charter is the first to ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

When providers, health plans, business associates, and even patients and plan participants think of the HIPAA privacy and security rules (‘HIPAA Rules”), they seem to be more focused on the privacy ...

These groups are invoking ACT UP’s legacy to push for further deregulation of the FDA. Here’s why they’re wrong. Ad Policy ACT UP protesters close the Federal Drug Administration building to demand ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Legal Corner answers viewers’ civil legal questions. QUESTION: Do patients in Louisiana have rights regarding their medical care that are guaranteed by law? If they do, then ...