Month: January 2015

Michael Davidson, the cardiothoracic surgeon shot and killed in Brigham and Women's Hospital last week by the distraught son of a woman on whom he had operated some time ago and who died in November, was a medical student of mine at Yale back in the early 1990s.Some few of my former students, including our newly minted surgeon general, Vivek…

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A doctor in Egypt was jailed on Monday for two years after the death of a 13-year-old girl on whom he performed genital mutilation (FGM), the first conviction since the practice was outlawed in 2008, the prosecutor said. The doctor and the girl’s father were acquitted by a lower court in November 2014 in a ruling that brought criticism from rights groups about Egypt’s commitment to protecting girls from a practice the United Nations says affects more than 90 percent of Egyptian women aged 15-49. Overturning the decision, a court in the Nile Delta province of Dakahlia sentenced Raslan Fadl to jail with labor for manslaughter and three additional months for performing FGM, prosecutor Ahmed Reda said. The girl died in June 2013 after undergoing FGM at Fadl’s clinic.
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By Shadi Bushra and Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) – The sons of deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak were released from prison on Monday, security officials said, a move that could fuel tension after the violent anniversary on Sunday of the 2011 uprising that toppled the autocrat. An Egyptian court last week ordered the release of Alaa and Gamal Mubarak pending their retrial in a corruption case. Mubarak's sons, big businessmen in his era of crony capitalism, were released at 2 a.m. Accompanied by their lawyer and bodyguards, they were driven to their home in Cairo's upscale Heliopolis area, security officials said. Judicial sources have said Mubarak could soon be freed pending retrial in a corruption case as the former air force commander currently has no convictions against him.

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By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Monday sent three patent cases, including one dispute over Shire Plc’sLialda drug, back to a lower court for further proceedings in light of a ruling the justices issued last week. In last week’s ruling concerning a dispute over Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd's Copaxone, its top-selling multiple sclerosis drug, the high court said the appeals court had used the wrong legal analysis. When considering the scope of patent claims construction, the appeals court must defer to a federal district judge unless there is evidence of "clear error,” the court found. In the Shire case, the appeals court had in a March 2014 ruling thrown out a lower court decision in the company’s favor over Lialda, a drug that treats inflammatory bowel conditions.

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