http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (AP)—A federal appeals court on Friday put the brakes on a first-of-its-kind California law that bans therapy aimed at turning gay minors straight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-court-blocks-california-law-gay.html Health Sat, 22 Dec 2012 06:25:10 EST news275379903 (AP)—Hobby Lobby Stores is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block part of the federal health care law that requires it to provide insurance coverage for the morning-after pill and similar emergency contraception pills. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-high-court-block-morning-after-pill.html Medications Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:58:26 EST news275331501 A decision by a federal appeals court this week could have a dramatic impact on the marketing of prescription drugs in America, potentially affecting patient care and everything from TV drug advertising to future government prosecutions - prosecutions that have in the past yielded billions of dollars in settlements - doctors and attorneys said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-court-door-drug.html Medications Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:50:01 EST news274004764 (AP)—A federal appeals court has denied the government's request to rehear a challenge to a requirement that tobacco companies put large graphic health warnings on cigarette packages. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-court-denies-rehearing-cigarette.html Health Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:33:31 EST news273929598 (AP)—A federal appeals court in Washington is considering whether marijuana should be reclassified from its current status as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-medical-marijuana-advocates-drug-reclassified.html Medications Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:25:48 EST news269612727 (AP)—The U.S. government is asking a federal appeals court to rehear a challenge to a requirement that tobacco companies to put large graphic health warnings on cigarette packages. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-feds-full-court-cigarette.html Health Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:42:19 EST news269012532 (AP) -- A federal appeals court is considering the constitutionality of requiring large graphic photos on cigarette packs to show that smoking can harm or kill smokers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-court-graphic-health-cigarettes.html Health Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:14:06 EST news253278254 (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday declined to reconsider a ruling that allows bone marrow donors to be paid for their donations like blood donors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-court-wont-reconsider-bone-marrow.html Other Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:14:51 EST news252123269 (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling allowing human genes to be patented, a topic of enormous interest to cancer researchers, patients and drug makers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-high-court-human-gene-patents.html Genetics Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:08:48 EST news251996918 (HealthDay) -- In the latest salvo in the battle over U.S. government plans to put graphic anti-smoking images on cigarette packs, a federal appeals court has upheld the proposed changes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-appeals-court-fda-graphic-images.html Health Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:50:01 EST news251385086 The US Supreme Court will hear evidence challenging President Barack Obama's health care reform -- which has come under fire from Republicans -- over three days in March, a spokeswoman said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-supreme-court-obama-health-reform.html Health Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:32:27 EST news243534736 (AP) -- A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that most bone marrow donors can be paid, overturning a decades-old law that made such compensation a crime. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-court-bone-marrow-donors-paid.html Medical research Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:50:01 EST news241977643 A US appeals court panel Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul, in the latest legal challenge to the law which is expected to end up at the Supreme Court. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-appeals-panel-obama-health-law.html Health Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:22:55 EST news239980968 The US Supreme Court will decide on November 10 whether or not to take up the case of President Barack Obama's historic health care law, court sources said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-supreme-court-nov-health-case.html Health Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:29:50 EST news238872559 A federal appeals court on Friday ruled in favor of Myriad Genetics after a legal battle over whether the US company could keep its patent on genes linked to an inherited form of breast cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-myriad-patent-breast-cancer-genes.html Cancer Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:43:16 EST news231216176