At least 17 people died in Florida over a decade following a physical encounter with police during which medical personnel also injected them with a powerful sedative, an investigation led by The ...

Reporting from Little Rock, Ark. — A federal lawsuit filed by death row inmates has renewed a court fight over whether the sedative Arkansas uses for lethal injections causes torturous executions, two ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By RYAN J. FOLEY, CARLA K. JOHNSON and SHELBY LUM (Associated Press) Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived. The 43-year ...

An intramuscular injection is a technique for delivering medication deep into the muscles. This allows the medication to absorb quickly into the bloodstream. You may have received an intramuscular ...

Lawyers from a watchdog agency and the state Mental Hygiene Legal Service say they've found that patients on the psychiatric units at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan are physically restrained and ...

The Alabama Attorney General’s Office is denying that Joe Nathan James Jr., who was executed in July, was given intramuscular sedatives or that he underwent an invasive ‘cutdown’ procedure. The claims ...

Most people know the feeling of getting a shot and having your arm feel sore for several days afterward. Some might even expect it as a side effect. The soreness happens when medications are injected ...

Aug. 10—An abortion rights activist who was dragged off the hardwood floor of Chase Center during a protest at a Warriors-Celtics game in the NBA Finals has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that she ...

Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived. The 43-year-old was surrounded by police who arrested him after responding to a trespassing call in a Wisconsin parking lot ...