MAHA, Telehealth And Deals: The Forecast From HLTH
With the close of the annual HLTH conference in Las Vegas, Law360 Healthcare Authority talked with healthcare lawyers and business leaders about this year's big themes and what they see coming for a fast-changing industry.
Colo. Appellate Panel Backs Order To Donate Pre-Embryos
Colorado appellate judges have upheld a state trial court finding that a nonmarried couple must donate their cryogenically preserved pre-embryos that were created before the dissolution of their relationship.
Tylenol Autism Warning May Face Legal, Free Speech Hurdles
The Trump administration’s plan to add an autism warning to Tylenol's labeling could generate procedural and First Amendment challenges. Legal experts expect federal officials’ own words will be used against them.
MAHA, Telehealth And Deals: The Forecast From HLTH
With the close of the annual HLTH conference in Las Vegas, Law360 Healthcare Authority talked with healthcare lawyers and business leaders about this year's big themes and what they see coming for a fast-changing industry.
Colo. Appellate Panel Backs Order To Donate Pre-Embryos
Colorado appellate judges have upheld a state trial court finding that a nonmarried couple must donate their cryogenically preserved pre-embryos that were created before the dissolution of their relationship.
Tylenol Autism Warning May Face Legal, Free Speech Hurdles
The Trump administration’s plan to add an autism warning to Tylenol's labeling could generate procedural and First Amendment challenges. Legal experts expect federal officials’ own words will be used against them.
Expert Analysis
As federal agencies target wound care industry fraud as a top enforcement priority, attorneys advising industry st... (more story)
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has systematically strengthened his office to fill federal enforcement gaps,... (more story)
Recent oversight, enforcement and operational developments in the U.S. organ procurement and transplantation syste... (more story)
Deals & Corporate Governance More
Private equity-backed medical supplies giant Medline has filed for its long-awaited initial public offering, eyeing a return to public markets four years after being taken private through a large buyout.
A handful of pharma companies and a slew of health systems released their financial reports this quarter in recent days, kicking off the first major week of earnings for the quarter.
If courts accept the administration’s new interpretation of preexisting case law, which attempts to graft onto grant recipients the existing limitations on government contractors' free speech, a more deferenti... (more story)
A Brooklyn federal judge will not reverse a finding that a former CEO of health technology company Koninklijke Philips NV misled shareholders about the safety and compliance of a subsidiary's sleep and respira... (more story)
An investor in vaccine giant Moderna Inc. has failed to show that the company misrepresented the efficacy of its RSV vaccine by pointing out that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration later recalculated the va... (more story)
The Delaware Chancery Court and Delaware Supreme Court saw another busy week of disputes spanning biotech milestones, reincorporation showdowns, shareholder voting schemes and cryptocurrency fiduciary rights.
Digital Health & Technology More
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. said on Wednesday it will acquire Clario Holdings Inc., a provider of endpoint data solutions for clinical trials, from a shareholder group led by Astorg, Nordic Capital, Novo Hol... (more story)
A California federal judge has refused to release CVS Pharmacy Inc. and a marketing partner from a putative class action accusing them of illegally intercepting personal health information from those who visit... (more story)
A California federal judge issued a mixed ruling in Masimo's case claiming Apple infringed its patents covering pulse oximetry technology for smartwatches, dismissing certain infringement theories but preservi... (more story)
Smart ring maker Oura has hit Samsung with patent claims in Texas federal court, alleging the Korean electronics giant had been challenging Oura's patents in the U.S. before the launch of its allegedly infring... (more story)
The former CEO of Magellan Diagnostics was sentenced in Massachusetts federal court Monday to a year of home confinement for failing to alert regulators to a problem in the company's lead-testing devices that ... (more story)
A Georgia federal judge was asked Wednesday to grant preliminary approval of a settlement that would end a proposed class action against NextGen Healthcare over a 2023 data hack that allegedly affected more th... (more story)
Policy & Compliance More
The U.S. Department of Justice issued a subpoena to intimidate a telehealth organization into ending gender-affirming medical care, a Seattle federal judge said in a ruling that found the agency is using the g... (more story)
A respiratory therapist has reached a tentative deal in a proposed collective action against a healthcare facility operator accused of manipulating workers' time sheets to pay them less overtime wages, North C... (more story)
The Trump administration on Wednesday said it plans to slash the cost of biologics by shortening the time required to bring a biosimilar drug to market and making it easier for patients to switch to the cheaper products.
Indivior, Sun Pharmaceuticals and Zydus Pharmaceuticals have inked deals to compensate tribes for their role in the opioid crisis, according to stipulated dismissals entered on Wednesday in Ohio federal court.
A whistleblower suing drugmaker Novo Nordisk for allegedly defrauding Washington state's Medicaid system acknowledged from the witness stand Tuesday that she previously prescribed hemophilia drugs for off-labe... (more story)
Following a Michigan appellate court's recent finding that evidence brought in a wrongful death suit against paramedics was enough to get around immunity protections, Law360 Healthcare Authority looks at signi... (more story)