Pennsylvania Medical Society News

Paper Ponders Marijuana as Medicine

While many states have pushed for new laws to legalize the use of marijuana for medical reasons, there are few well-controlled studies that demonstrate its effectiveness. As such, most major state and national medical professional societies have not yet supported …

Pennsylvania Governor Signs Benevolent Gesture Medical Professional Liability Act

A decade after a back-and-forth legislative battle that saw both doctors and lawyers visiting the state capitol by the hundreds – perhaps thousands – to argue for or against tort reforms that led to state law modifications in 2003, the …