Medical experts never testified in Katrina deaths
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A New Orleans grand jury that declined to indict a doctor on charges that she murdered patients in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina never heard testimony from five medical experts brought in by the state to analyze the deaths.
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Days after a jury acquitted two nursing-home owners in dozens of Hurricane Katrina-related patient deaths, a prosecutor said that no charges would be filed in a similar case involving a nursing home run by an order of Roman Catholic nuns.
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The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to offer help to Hurricane Katrina victims who want their insurance companies to pay for flood damage to their homes and businesses.
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ALBUQUERQUE -- New Mexico medical investigators have not performed an autopsy for the Navajo Nation in more than a year because of unpaid bills for their services totaling a quarter of a million dollars.
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The bodies are no longer being dragged from houses and buildings toppled by Hurricane Katrina, but nearly two years later many in the medical community think the storm is still killing.
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The first victims of Hurricane Katrina never felt the raging winds, never saw the floodwaters. They were two elderly nursing-home residents who died on a school bus that took three hours to load and five hours to travel from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.
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Even after Yasir Arafat's death, French health officials continued their silence about exactly what disease killed the Palestinian leader.
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CHALMETTE, Louisiana  - The owners of a New Orleans-area nursing home where 35 people drowned in one of the worst tragedies of Hurricane Katrina pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to multiple charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.
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A state investigation finds no evidence that workers at a St. Louis restaurant knew Josh Hancock was drunk when they served the Cardinals pitcher alcohol in the hours prior to his fatal accident.
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No warnings were issued over a  faulty water tank system which killed  Rhianna Hardie, an inquest hears.
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The case against a doctor and two  nurses accused of murdering four elderly patients after  Hurricane Katrina will go forward despite a coroner's ruling  that it is unclear how they died, the New Orleans District  Attorney's office said on Thursday.
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A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did not promote the administration's policy...
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The family of an HIV-infected pregnant woman said they were never told Joyce Ann Hafford died from the experimental drug she was taking in an effort to keep her baby from being infected.
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The lead executioner of a convicted killer who took twice the normal time to die never received any medical training, the executioner told a panel reviewing Florida's lethal injection procedures Friday.
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All charges against a doctor accused of murdering four patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have been dropped, a spokesman for the state prosecutors office said on Tuesday.
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Yasser Arafat's nephew said on Monday that medical records released by France showed no trace of known poisons in the late Palestinian leader but the cause of death remained a mystery.
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Dr. Anna Pou was accused of murdering nine patients in a New Orleans hospital wracked by Katrina, but a grand jury declined to indict her. Now she gives her side of the story.