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RFK Jr. Ally Tapped as Top US Doctor Pressed on Vaccines, Ethics
1+ hour, 2+ min ago (532+ words) Senators questioned US surgeon general nominee Casey Means about her stance on vaccinations, her financial ties, and her willingness to buck the Trump administration during her rescheduled confirmation hearing Wednesday. Means, who appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and…...
Disabled Patient’s Family Revives Bias Case Against Hospital (1)
2+ hour, 52+ min ago (58+ words) Disabled Patient's Family Revives Bias Case Against Hospital (1)Bloomberg Law News A Texas family can revive disability bias claims against a hospital and medical providers that put a quadriplegic patient into hospice care instead of treating his respiratory illness, a…...
Abbott’s H-1B Freeze to Impact Health Care Sector: Texas Brief
7+ hour, 22+ min ago (134+ words) Abbott's H-1B Freeze to Impact Health Care Sector: Texas Brief'Bloomberg Law News H-1B Freeze to Hit Health-Care Providers Fewer potential doctors, worse medical innovation, and poorer health-care for Texans. That's what experts told Andrew Kreighbaum the repercussions could be of Gov. Greg…...
FDA Push for Nonprescription Drugs Risks Cost Shift to Consumers
10+ hour, 23+ min ago (791+ words) The FDA's call to industry to shift more prescription medications to over-the-counter stands to threaten drug coverage for patients as nonprescription products are generally excluded from health plans. US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary is seeking to make…...
Home Health-Care Provider Ordered to Defend Tobacco Penalty
10+ hour, 38+ min ago (127+ words) Home Health-Care Provider Ordered to Defend Tobacco Penalty'Bloomberg Law News LHC Group Inc. was ordered to defend a proposed class action claiming it wrongly charges tobacco-using employees extra fees for health-care coverage without providing a valid way to have the…...
RFK Jr. Faces Lawsuit by 15 States Over US Vaccine Changes (2)
22+ hour, 58+ min ago (98+ words) RFK Jr. Sued Over US Vaccine Changes by More Than a Dozen States'Bloomberg Law News US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule is facing a fresh legal challenge from 15 states that argue the changes…...
Education Department Loses Bid to Block Mental Health Grants
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (94+ words) Education Department Loses Bid to Block Mental Health Grants'Bloomberg Law News The US Department of Education failed to convinced a federal appeals court to block a lower court order requiring the agency to continue school mental health grant funding to…...
Siemens Defeats Bid to Reinstate Medical Device Fraud Lawsuit
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (121+ words) Siemens Defeats Bid to Reinstate Medical Device Fraud Lawsuit'Bloomberg Law News Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. showed that a New York federal district court properly dismissed a False Claims Act suit alleging the company caused customers to bill federal health-care…...
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Hit With Retirement Plan Lawsuit
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (55+ words) Children's Hospital Los Angeles Hit With Retirement Plan Lawsuit'Bloomberg Law News The retirement plans covering employees of Children's Hospital Los Angeles are plagued by high fees, pricey and poorly performing mutual funds, and an imprudent stable value investment, a federal…...
Philips Again Stops Whistleblower’s CPAP Machine Kickback Suit
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (107+ words) Philips Again Stops Whistleblower's CPAP Machine Kickback Suit'Bloomberg Law News Philips Respironics and related companies again secured the dismissal of a whistleblower's suit alleging they violated the False Claims Act by engaging in kickback schemes to encourage purchases of respiratory…...