Mercyhealth reaches $1 million settlement with feds over COVID-19 vaccine policy
Rockford-based Mercyhealth has agreed to pay more than $1 million to employees who had refused to comply with its COVID-19 vaccine policy.
153 Houston Hospital Employees Resign Or Fired Over Refusal To Get COVID-19 Vaccine
DALLAS (AP) — More than 150 employees at a Houston hospital system who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine have been fired or resigned after a judge dismissed an employee lawsuit over the vaccine requirement. A spokesperson for Houston Methodist hospital system said 153 employees either resigned in the two-week suspension period or were terminated […]
Court Rules Against Pharmacist Who Refused Emergency Contraception Prescription
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that a pharmacist who refused to provide emergency contraceptives to a customer because of his personal beliefs engaged in discrimination. The three-judge panel ruled Monday that pharmacist George Badeaux engaged in business discrimination in 2019 when he wouldn’t fill a prescription for an emergency contraception that is used […]
Opinion | When a Revolutionary Cancer Treatment Causes Cancer
Sekeres is a leukemia specialist. My patient was young, in his thirties, and had a terrible leukemia that refused to be vanquished with multiple rounds of chemotherapy. Many of my adult patients, at the time of their diagnosis, tell me they are so happy they have acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and not acute myeloid leukemia, because […]
Texas Law Banning Abortions at 6 Weeks Goes Into Effect
Update: Late Wednesday night, the Supreme Court refused to block the Texas law in a 5-4 vote. Despite multiple legal challenges by abortion providers and an emergency petition to the Supreme Court, the new Texas law that bans most abortions at or around 6 weeks of pregnancy went into effect at midnight. The bill, known […]