/health?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Health Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:44:49 +0000 /health/articles/2354093?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2354093 President Donald Trump signed an order Monday enshrining the nation's new trade deal with U.K. governments under which the U.S. agreed to slash tariffs on 100,000 imported U.K. automobiles and auto parts, while eliminating tariffs on certain aerospace products but leaving steel and pharmaceuticals tariffs for future negotiations. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 20:46:55 +0000 /health/articles/2353923?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2353923 A Pennsylvania appellate panel on Monday reinstated a suit accusing a doctor of causing a patient's fainting and subsequent broken leg due to negligently prescribed medication, saying the trial court erroneously approved a dismissal bid that a different judge previously rejected. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:28:24 +0000 /health/articles/2353990?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2353990 The Cannabis Regulators Association, an international organization of government officials who oversee marijuana and hemp policy, on Monday announced its new executive board. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:12:07 +0000 /health/articles/2353758?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2353758 Lowe's overcharges its employees for health insurance if they are tobacco users in violation of federal benefits law, according to a proposed class action filed Monday in North Carolina federal court. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:02:59 +0000 /health/articles/2353623?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2353623 Former Fox News anchor Ed Henry has settled a lawsuit brought by a former producer who accused him of rape and sexual assault, according to a stipulation of dismissal filed in New York federal court on Monday. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:53:42 +0000 /health/articles/2353468?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2353468 Ohio urged the Sixth Circuit to send its case accusing Express Scripts and Prime Therapeutics of driving up prescription drug prices through rebate schemes back to state court, arguing the case doesn't target any federal government work by the pharmacy benefit managers. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:12:52 +0000 /health/articles/2352408?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2352408 In light of recent high-profile patient privacy violations, health practices — especially in California — should better position themselves to comply with medical privacy laws by shoring up strategies ranging from mapping electronic protected health information to building a better compliance culture, says Suzanne Natbony at Aliant Law. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:45:52 +0000 /health/articles/2353672?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2353672 A California federal judge has refused to certify a proposed class of HIV and AIDS patients alleging CVS Pharmacy Inc. violated federal disability bias protections by making their medication harder to access, finding the proposed group failed to meet the commonality standards under federal law.  Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:12:30 +0000 /health/articles/2353834?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2353834 A former medical center worker who claims she was fired out of pregnancy bias urged the Fourth Circuit to reconsider upholding the dismissal of her suit, arguing the panel ignored evidence that she performed her job successfully when crediting her ex-employer's defense that she was fired for subpar work. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:36:04 +0000 /health/articles/2353699?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2353699 An attorney who has spent his entire career with Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, serving most recently as its chief counsel, has joined King & Spalding LLP's healthcare team in Washington, D.C., the firm announced on Monday. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:26:23 +0000 /health/articles/2352951?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2352951 A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday blocked the National Institutes of Health from cutting hundreds of grant programs to universities, hospitals and other organizations, saying that in his 40 years on the bench he had never seen such "palpable" racial and LGBTQ discrimination from the government. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:58:44 +0000 /health/articles/2353695?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2353695 Attorneys general from 55 U.S. states and territories on Monday backed Purdue Pharma's $7.4 billion deal to settle opioid injury claims against the company and the Sackler family, almost a year after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out Purdue's previous plan to end litigation over its role in the opioid epidemic. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:46:38 +0000 /health/articles/2352370?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2352370 The U.S. Supreme Court vacated and remanded a case from a Roman Catholic diocese in New York on Monday, bypassing for now the chance to overturn a landmark ruling that restricts First Amendment religious freedom challenges. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:07:09 +0000 /health/articles/2352804?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2352804 The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.'s request to review a Third Circuit decision that more than 1,000 failure-to-warn claims over its osteoporosis drug Fosamax can continue despite the company's assertion that the litigation is barred by federal law. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:57:24 +0000 /health/articles/2326567?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2326567 The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review the Third Circuit's dismissal of an anti-abortion pregnancy center's federal lawsuit challenging a subpoena from the New Jersey attorney general demanding information about its donors. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 23:09:45 +0000 /health/articles/2353432?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2353432 A group of pilots and other people required to undergo alcohol screening for their employment cannot pursue their Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act claims against a drug testing company, the Seventh Circuit ruled Friday after finding that the complaint doesn't adequately tie the plaintiffs' injuries to the alleged fraudulent scheme. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:37:07 +0000 /health/articles/2353360?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2353360 AbbVie Inc. on Thursday filed suit in Colorado federal court seeking to block an incoming state law it alleges conflicts with the federal 340B drug discount program by forcing pharmaceutical manufacturers to sell drugs at steep discounts to commercial pharmacy chains like Walgreens and CVS. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:28:17 +0000 /health/articles/2352992?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2352992 The acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director issued more than a dozen discretionary denial decisions on Thursday and Friday, where she ruled largely in favor of the challenger, made clear that challenges to young patents have a huge advantage and brought in a denial based on assignor estoppel. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:24:11 +0000 /health/articles/2353084?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2353084 Bayer has beat a negligence lawsuit filed by a woman who claims its Mirena IUD perforated her uterus and migrated after the patient failed to oppose the company's motion to dismiss, a Washington federal judge ruled. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:03:42 +0000 /health/articles/2353305?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2353305 A venture-backed cancer diagnostics firm and a home insurer are preparing two initial public offerings that could raise $720 million combined next week, joining an energized IPO market following fintech startup Chime Financial Inc.'s debut.