— A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts

by Kristina Fiore, Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting, MedPage Today

July 30, 2026

• 2 min read

A Texas medical spa's owner and its medical director, anesthesiologist Michael Gallagher, MD, have been criminally charged in the murder of a 47-year-old patient who died after falling unconscious during an infusion of a prescription electrolyte solution. (Dallas Morning News)