This Week's Healthcare Earnings: J&J, Elevance, Tenet
Earnings season for the second quarter of the year kicked off recently with results from heavy hitters like Johnson & Johnson and Novartis this past week.
FDA Talks Transparency. Drug Cos. Ask How Far It Will Go
The first batch of rejection letters published as part of the FDA’s new transparency effort didn’t shake up the pharmaceutical industry. But future releases could trigger litigation and influence drug-development strategies, depending on how far the agency is willing to go.
Decades After Autism Omnibus, CDC Back In Thimerosal Fight
An unusual legal proceeding two decades ago tested claims that childhood vaccines caused autism. The "omnibus" proceeding found no such link, cutting off the primary legal path for such claims. Today, a CDC advisory panel reconstituted by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reopening the debate.
This Week's Healthcare Earnings: J&J, Elevance, Tenet
Earnings season for the second quarter of the year kicked off recently with results from heavy hitters like Johnson & Johnson and Novartis this past week.
FDA Talks Transparency. Drug Cos. Ask How Far It Will Go
The first batch of rejection letters published as part of the FDA’s new transparency effort didn’t shake up the pharmaceutical industry. But future releases could trigger litigation and influence drug-development strategies, depending on how far the agency is willing to go.
Decades After Autism Omnibus, CDC Back In Thimerosal Fight
An unusual legal proceeding two decades ago tested claims that childhood vaccines caused autism. The "omnibus" proceeding found no such link, cutting off the primary legal path for such claims. Today, a CDC advisory panel reconstituted by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reopening the debate.
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Deals & Corporate Governance More
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Digital Health & Technology More
The Federal Trade Commission has asked the Ninth Circuit for extra time to decide if it will weigh in on a $140 million antitrust appeal involving Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci robot.
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Five named plaintiffs testified Tuesday in a 13 million-member class action alleging Meta and Flo Health illegally collected their private health information and used it for ad targeting, telling a California ... (more story)
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Policy & Compliance More
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UnitedHealth Group Inc. has disclosed that it is complying with formal criminal and civil requests from the U.S. Department of Justice, following media reports about investigations into aspects of the insuranc... (more story)
A nonprofit battling government resistance to its planned safe drug injection site in Philadelphia can qualify for religious freedom protections, the Third Circuit said in a precedential opinion on Thursday, r... (more story)
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An Illinois federal judge gave his final blessing Tuesday to a $5.9 million settlement between Argent Trust Co. and a group of Symbria Inc. employees who accused the company of mismanaging their employee stock ownership plan.
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