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Gov. Ralph Northam has granted an absolute pardon erasing the conviction of a Franklin County woman for discarding the remains of a stillborn fetus. The case, little noticed at first, became a lightning rod in the abortion rights debate after ...

Cyber attacks and costly accidental losses of sensitive personal and financial information are no longer confined to retailers such as Target and Sony or banks and investment houses such as JP Morgan. Professional service firms — accountants, lawyers, financial advisors ...

By Stephanie Wood BridgeTower Media Newswires DETROIT, MI — The vacation rental business is a multibillion dollar industry. Finding a house or condo to rent has become increasingly more convenient through the use of online marketplaces used by owners to list ...

By W. Scott Johnson The 2018 session of the Virginia General Assembly saw passage of House Bill 793, patroned by Del. Roxann Robinson, R-Chesterfield, which will authorize a pathway for certain nurse practitioners to practice without a practice agreement. This ...

By David Donovan BridgeTower Media Newswires RALEIGH, NC — When Microsoft announced in December that it was removing language from contracts signed by some of its employees that required them to pursue any sexual harassment claims against the company through ...

By Brandy Burnette Balding A “do not resuscitate” tattoo on a Florida patient’s chest was the subject of much discussion after a November 2017 case report in the New England Journal of Medicine.1 This pa- tient’s tattoo should not be ...

By Ruth T. Griggs Healthcare providers are accustomed to adult involvement in the medical care of most “unemancipated” minors – minors who are not legally independent from their parents. Access to the minor’s records and/or medical information often goes hand ...

By W. Scott Johnson In the 2016 session of the Virginia General Assembly, Del. Greg Ha­beeb, R-Salem, introduced House Bill 1130 to establish a fee schedule governing requests for patient re­cords maintained electronically and to revise the fee schedule for ...

By Brandy Burnette Balding As the opioid crisis in Virginia has escalated, several new laws and regulations have been adopted that affect the Prescription Monitor­ing Program and its database. Many of the new laws and regulations con­cern a provider’s duty ...

By Aaron Rothert Let’s face it: We need email. But we also need a way to control the beast that email can become. It is estimated that almost 30 percent of our workday is consumed by dealing with email. How do ...