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For years, Tennessee has required anyone convicted of prostitution while HIV-positive to register as a sex offender for life. In response to DOJ and ACLU discrimination suits, the state has agreed to reverse course.
Millions of Americans suffer from temporomandibular joint, or TMJ, disorders. The high cost and poor insurance coverage of TMJ care can bury patients in debt even as the treatments do more harm than good.
A Florida woman with no training in mental health services pretended to be a licensed social worker during online therapy sessions with Brightside Health patients.
Ballad Health, a 20-hospital system in Tennessee and Virginia, benefits from the largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in the United States and is the only option for hospital care for a large swath of Appalachia.
In contrast to police statements, volunteer medics said they treated serious wounds as UCLAs pro-Palestinian protest was besieged by police and counterprotesters, including some injuries that appeared to be caused by less lethal projectiles fired by cops.
Johns Dental Laboratories stopped making the Anterior Growth Guidance Appliance last year after a 窪蹋勛圖厙 News-CBS News investigation into allegations of patient harm. The company had never reported any complaints about its products to the FDA, according to the agency.
TMJ disorders affect as many as 1 in 10 Americans and yet remain poorly understood and ineffectively treated. Many common treatments used by dentists lack scientific evidence.
Ballad Health was granted the nations largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in 2018. Since then, its emergency rooms have become more than three times as slow.
The FDA and Department of Justice are investigating the Anterior Growth Guidance Appliance, or AGGA. TMJ and sleep apnea patients have filed lawsuits alleging the device harmed them. Its inventor now says the AGGA was never meant for these ailments.
The FDA and the manufacturer were alerted to Profemur titanium hips breaking inside U.S. patients as of 2005. It took 15 years to recall the devices. Many fractures could have been avoided.
As Medicaid programs across the nation review enrollees' status in the wake of the pandemic, patients struggle to navigate the upheaval.
Ballad Health, the only hospital system across a large swath of Tennessee and Virginia, has fallen short of quality-of-care and charity care obligations even as its sued thousands of patients for unpaid bills.
A venous needle dislodgment is a rare dialysis complication that can kill a patient in minutes. Some experts worry those who treat themselves at home are at increased risk.
Richard Coble issued vaccine waivers to patients in at least three states without examining them. He was exposed by a Nashville TV station that bought a waiver for a Labrador retriever named Charlie.
窪蹋勛圖厙 News and CBS News recently reported that multiple lawsuits allege the device has led to grievous injuries to patients mouths, resulting in loss of teeth.
A KHN and CBS News investigation found that a dental appliance called the AGGA has been used by more than 10,000 patients, and multiple lawsuits allege it has caused grievous harm to patients.
The FDAs interest in the AGGA dental device follows a KHN-CBS News investigation, according to a former agency official.
A dental device called AGGA has been used on about 10,000 patients without FDA approval or proof that it works. In lawsuits, patients report irreparable harm. The AGGAs inventor and manufacturer have denied all liability in court.
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