Last year, more than 1,700 orders for involuntary electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) were approved by tribunals in Australia.

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The AMA House of Delegates established guardrails to protect physicians’ biological and personal data that are collected to ...

A cache of court records has been unsealed in the high-stakes legal battle between Kansas abortion providers and Attorney ...