Healthcare
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CVS Health Corp. has agreed to pay $4.35 million to resolve claims it divulged the protected health information of 6,000 Ohio residents by mailing letters in envelopes with windows that revealed names and references to HIV diagnoses, according to Tuesday federal court filings… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s “gag rule” barring federal-funded health care providers from giving abortion referrals from taking effect in the Golden State, a day after a judge in Washington issued a nationwide injunction… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The federal government has won a suit brought by a military veteran alleging that staff at an Army hospital acted negligently when they failed to diagnose a stroke that later killed her husband, according to filings in Texas federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Athena Diagnostics on Monday asked the full Federal Circuit to reconsider a February ruling by a split, three-judge panel that said its patent on an autoimmune disease diagnostic test is invalid under Supreme Court precedent because it claims only a natural law… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Drugmaker Impax Laboratories Inc. accepted an illegal payment from Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. in exchange for delaying the market entry of Impax’s generic form of Endo’s opioid pain medication Opana ER, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Friday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 