Medical controversies in the United States

American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line (1920–1951)

set of medical symptoms affecting U.S. and Canada government personnel

On June 25, 2009, American singer Michael Jackson died of acute propofol intoxication in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 50. His personal physician, Conrad Murray, said that he found Jackson in his bedroom at his North Carolwood Drive home in the Holmby Hills area of the city not breathing and with a weak pulse; he administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to no avail, and security called 9-1-1 at 12:21 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (UTC–7). Paramedics treated Jackson at the scene, but he was pronounced dead at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood at 2:26 p.m.

American psychologist (1905–1981)

American sufferer of severe combined immunodeficiency (1971–1984)

American Pharmaceuticals Company

medical condition

American medical case (1954–1985)

American quack, fraud, swindler and serial killer (1867-1938)

rule barring psychiatrists from giving professional opinions on the mental health of public figures without in-person examination and consent

nutritionist and author (1895-1976)

American psychiatrist and self-help author (b. 1954)

American doctor

widely rejected diagnosis characterized as a potentially fatal state of extreme agitation and delirium

controversial, scientifically unsupported hypothesis which claims that some adolescents identify as transgender and experience gender dysphoria due to peer influence and social contagion, particularly those assigned female at birth

device used by Harry Harlow to study rhesus monkeys

criticality accident

German physician (1872–1945)

British pharmacologist

American right-to-die legal case

Philanthropist, Entrepreneur, and Mass Communications expert

United States Supreme Court case

History of homosexuality as a diagnosed psychopathology

American medical controversy (1992–1995)

controversial set of medical procedures performed on an American child, "Ashley X

Residential center condemned for torture by the United Nations

non-fiction work by Bandy X. Lee

American fraudster

death of an African-American citizen of the United States associated with law enforcement