Patients Rights

Rebecca Schleifer: The Disaster at "Christ is Love"

9 Feb 2012

Firemen on the scene reported terrible overcrowding -- up to 70 people, 18 to a room, in a facility equipped for 12. Who would blame them for trying to escape? At Christ is Love there apparently was neither treatment nor much love.

New Michigan-based medical marijuana coalition forms, aims to protect patient rights

9 Feb 2012

DETROIT — A new Michigan-based medical marijuana coalition —The National Patients Rights Association (NPRA) — has been formed by some of the nation’s leading medical marijuana advocates to protect patient rights. The group will encourage legislators, prosecutors, and local governments to honor the decision of voters that enacted laws to legalize medical marijuana in 16 states and the nation’s ...

Human Rights Watch: Yemen: Unlawful Attacks, Denial of Medical Care in Taizz

8 Feb 2012

US, EU, Gulf Should Reject Immunity for Saleh, Aides (New York) – Yemeni security forces stormed and shelled hospitals, evicted patients at gunpoint, and beat...