Oregon Racing to Block Predatory Hospice Schemes
As California's revamped laws trigger a massive crackdown on hospice fraud, Oregon lawmakers are moving to protect their residents against an influx of predatory operators. The state currently lacks robust hospice regulations, making it an attractive target for bad actors seeking a foothold as they are pushed out of neighboring markets, palliative care advocates say.
FDA Targets 'Emotional' Ads In New Enforcement Campaign
Federal regulators' quick objection to a Novo Nordisk commercial touting its new weight loss pill as a chance to "live lighter" is designed to send a message to drugmakers and discourage them from making emotional appeals that promise patients a better life, experts say.
This Week's Healthcare Earnings: Moderna, Tenet And More
Healthcare stocks saw big moves in recent days, even as earnings season begins to wind down for the industry.
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A New York federal judge has trimmed a securities class action accusing Global Cord Blood Corp. and others of orchestrating and trying to cover up a scheme in which hundreds of millions of dollars were transfe... (more story)
A Pennsylvania federal judge has dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit brought by the former head of product development for Olympus Corp. of the Americas, ruling that the ex-executive failed to show he was fired ... (more story)
Transplant diagnostics company CareDx has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Third Circuit decision that erased a nearly $45 million jury award against rival Natera in a false advertising case, arguing t... (more story)
Real estate investment trusts Welltower Inc. and Ventas Inc. recorded strong financial results from the last quarter and the full year of 2025, as both companies intensified their focus on senior housing, a se... (more story)
Insurers garnered several wins Tuesday in a dispute over coverage for thousands of opioid suits against bankrupt pharmaceutical company Endo International, with a Pennsylvania federal court ruling favorably fo... (more story)
A Fifth Circuit panel upheld on Monday a Louisiana law that allows the state to stop prescription drug manufacturers from blocking safety-net healthcare providers from contracting with outside pharmacies to di... (more story)
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A North Carolina federal judge has ruled that a prospective class of Nurse.com users lacked standing to sue the website's operator for Video Privacy Protection Act violations for allegedly sharing customers' i... (more story)
A former Johnson & Johnson subsidiary has agreed to pay $4.7 million to settle a potential class action claiming it unlawfully stored and collected facial scans of people who used its Neutrogena Skin360 tool, ... (more story)
The health payment platform Change Health Inc., which was at the center of the nation's largest healthcare data breach two years ago, is facing a fresh lawsuit from a proposed class of Pennsylvania healthcare ... (more story)
An increase in breach disclosures is coinciding with California's most comprehensive privacy and artificial intelligence legislation taking effect, illustrating the range of vulnerabilities organizations in th... (more story)
A California federal judge presiding over social media addiction multidistrict litigation Wednesday criticized Meta's bid to push newly filed arbitration demands into court, saying she doesn't have jurisdictio... (more story)
A New York federal judge said Wednesday that she can't block South Dakota officials from pursuing state legal action against an abortion rights group that launched an advertising campaign in South Dakota, sayi... (more story)
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Northwell Health inched closer to escaping a proposed class action alleging the hospital system hid cuts to workers' pension plans when converting to a cash-balance plan in the late 1990s, after a New York fed... (more story)
The Trump administration agreed to maintain the court-ordered restoration of articles penned by Harvard Medical School researchers that contained references to the LGBTQ+ community after they had previously be... (more story)
Trouble finding a mental health care therapist is unfortunate but not something that an entire class action can be based on, argued Blue Shield of California, urging a federal judge to dismiss a suit accusing ... (more story)
A Virginia federal court found that Sandoz Inc. should have brought its claims accusing Amgen of blocking competition for Enbrel in a previous patent dispute over the blockbuster autoimmune disease treatment.
An organization founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked a Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday to let it join the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary as a defendant in a lawsuit challengi... (more story)
Johnson & Johnson's Biosense Webster health tech unit urged the Ninth Circuit to overturn a California federal jury's $147 million antitrust verdict — later upped to $442 million — over the company withholding... (more story)