This Week In Healthcare Cybersecurity
Expiring Obama-era cybersecurity legislation, U.K. charges for 'Scattered Spider' breach, and the challenges of 23andMe's bankruptcy. Law360 looks at the week in cybersecurity developments affecting the healthcare industry.
Tylenol MDL In Spotlight After Trump Blasts Use In Pregnancy
The Trump administration's attack on the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy drew on the work of a Harvard expert whose analysis is central to a legal clash now before a federal appeals court. The president's broadside promises to energize plaintiffs.
FDA On Legal Tightrope In Push To Restrict Drug Ads
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration helped unleash a flood of "direct to consumer" drug advertisements in the 1990s. Copious First Amendment protections for such commercial speech will be tough for the Trump administration to outmaneuver.
This Week In Healthcare Cybersecurity
Expiring Obama-era cybersecurity legislation, U.K. charges for 'Scattered Spider' breach, and the challenges of 23andMe's bankruptcy. Law360 looks at the week in cybersecurity developments affecting the healthcare industry.
Tylenol MDL In Spotlight After Trump Blasts Use In Pregnancy
The Trump administration's attack on the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy drew on the work of a Harvard expert whose analysis is central to a legal clash now before a federal appeals court. The president's broadside promises to energize plaintiffs.
FDA On Legal Tightrope In Push To Restrict Drug Ads
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration helped unleash a flood of "direct to consumer" drug advertisements in the 1990s. Copious First Amendment protections for such commercial speech will be tough for the Trump administration to outmaneuver.
Expert Analysis
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The first half of 2025 saw the Massachusetts biotech industry post bleak numbers, including a dip in venture capital funding and merger activity, leaving attorneys looking for creative ways to help companies w... (more story)
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Foley & Lardner LLP has continued its expansion in Nashville with the addition of another former Holland & Knight LLP attorney, expanding its healthcare and life sciences and manufacturing sector capabilities.
Texas-based infectious disease laboratory HealthTrackRx has added a new chief legal officer following the departure of the top attorney it hired earlier this year.
Pfizer Inc. will acquire Metsera Inc. for $4.9 billion in cash, as the U.S. pharmaceutical giant bets on the biotech firm's experimental treatments for obesity and cardiometabolic diseases, the companies said Monday.
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A Florida federal judge gave final approval to a $20 million class action settlement as part of multidistrict litigation over theft of personal information from millions of U.S. citizens in a health data breac... (more story)
Law360 sat down with Suffolk County, New York, District Attorney Ray Tierney, who is prosecuting architect Rex Heuermann on charges that he murdered seven women on Long Island, to discuss the use of a newer fo... (more story)
The Missouri attorney general can demand that a hospital turn over unredacted records on patients getting transgender care as part of a probe of a whistleblower complaint, a state appeals court held Tuesday.
A California federal judge has refused to disturb a jury verdict that found Meta Platforms Inc. liable for using an online tracking tool to unlawfully obtain sensitive health data that users entered into the F... (more story)
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The largest provider of reproductive healthcare in Kansas will face off with state officials this week at a long-awaited trial focused on a 24-hour abortion waiting period, among other state requirements.
Law360 Healthcare Authority talks with Gayland Hethcoat of ArentFox Schiff LLP about the rationale behind major cuts coming to Medicaid state-directed payments and what they will mean for providers and patients.
Republican state senators in North Carolina have greenlit a bill that would revoke Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, aligning the Tar Heel state with the president's "One Big Beautiful Bill," which proh... (more story)
State lawmakers are including lengthy statutes of limitations — some of them decades-long — in new bans on transgender care for minors. Advocates say long time frames for prosecutions or civil suits make sense... (more story)