The most recent shakeup over the FDA’s top drug regulator position is adding to uncertainty within the pharmaceutical and biotech industry over how one of the most powerful agency centers will be led.
An influential panel of US vaccine advisers voted to revoke a longstanding recommendation that all babies receive hepatitis B shots within 24 hours of birth, a move expected to reverse the country’s progress toward eliminating the disease.
Rank-and-file House members from both parties are growing impatient as the year’s end approaches, and neither party’s leaders are budging on health care.
Health industry researchers hope the Trump administration will continue enforcing transparency in health-care prices after finalizing a rule to strengthen compliance by hospitals.
Top US health officials touted to tech companies Thursday that they will offer a new payment structure to manufacturers that create solutions that monitor chronic health conditions affecting seniors.
An influential panel of US vaccine advisers voted to revoke a longstanding recommendation that all babies receive hepatitis B shots within 24 hours of birth, a move expected to reverse the country’s progress toward eliminating the disease.
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A Delaware chancellor dismissed a breach of fiduciary duty claim against K&L Gates LLP Friday in a dispute stemming from a 2018 merger, saying a shareholder waited too long to bring its allegations.
A federal appeals court Friday affirmed a lower court’s denial of Florida’s move to block the federal government from enforcing a policy that would increase oversight of a specific tax the state levies on hospitals to fund its Medicaid program.
The Education Department failed to convince a federal appeals court to halt a preliminary injunction preventing it from discontinuing school mental health program grants.
Advisers to Congress on Medicare policy weighed recommendations Friday to reduce payments to providers that care for the elderly such as home health agencies and hospices, citing the industry’s profitability.
Insurance provider EmblemHealth and a group of its grievance and appeals specialists are seeking a judge’s final approval for a $3.8 million deal resolving the workers’ unpaid overtime claims.
Health insurers are still planning to cover the hepatitis B vaccine at no cost to patients after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advisory panel voted to narrow its recommendations, but it’s unclear whether employers will follow suit.
Gainwell Technologies LLC, the largest Medicaid claims processor for states, will face renewed False Claims Act allegations it enabled a Rhode Island hospital’s decade-long fraud that cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
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When do legal rights begin, at birth or before that? This video looks at the fetal personhood movement, and what it could mean for the future of abortion. We explore its history and the constitutional argument underpinning it.
A hunting group’s push to overturn the federal government’s ban on puppies younger than six months entering the US will end up in front of the Sixth Circuit this week.
A former clerk to Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh will face long-odds in convincing his former bosses to uphold a 90-year-old ruling limiting a president’s ability fire top government officials at will.
A Delaware chancellor dismissed a breach of fiduciary duty claim against K&L Gates LLP Friday in a dispute stemming from a 2018 merger, saying a shareholder waited too long to bring its allegations.
Jason Mills rejoined Morgan Lewis as a partner in its labor and employment practice in Los Angeles, the firm announced Friday.
The Supreme Court will consider whether federal judges have jurisdiction to hear a Maryland woman’s challenge to a state court medical consent order while state proceedings over that order are still ongoing.
The US Supreme Court will decide whether the government made missteps when charging a former Twitter employee convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia.
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