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  • Read more: Art Caplan: Many needlessly getting steroid injections for back pain
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    Art Caplan: Many needlessly getting steroid injections for back pain

    By Arthur Caplan In his latest MSNBC column, Art Caplan addresses a different angle of the fungal meningitis outbreak: Many needlessly getting steroid injections for back pain, bioethicist says The quest for relief from pain has now resulted in the deaths of 19 people and a total of 247 confirmed infections of fungal meningitis from…

  • Read more: 9th Circuit: Prosecution of Women Seeking Illegal Abortions Likely Unconstitutional
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    9th Circuit: Prosecution of Women Seeking Illegal Abortions Likely Unconstitutional

    By Nadia N. Sawicki In May 2011, Jennie Linn McCormack was charged with violating an Idaho law making it a felony for any woman to undergo an abortion in a manner not authorized by statute. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has recently upheld the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho’s grant of a…