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Arizona Supreme Court Decides Cipro’s Black Box Warning Cannot Replace an Expert Opinion

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In Arizona, civil claims against health care professionals must be accompanied by a certified statement regarding whether “expert opinion testimony is necessary to prove the health care professional’s standard of care or...more

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Better Health Care Newsletter - September 2024

Silence surrounding medical harms hurts patients and the medical care system - An ugly truth of 21st century medicine is that episodes that hurt and kill patients get hidden from public view in the name of patient...more

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What Is Polypharmacy And Why Should You Care?

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Polypharmacy is Medspeak for taking more than one prescription medication at a time. About one in five Americans over age 49 is a polypharmicist, of sorts....more

Epstein Becker & Green

NJ Supreme Court: No Punitive Damages in Medical Malpractice Case Without Evidence of Wanton and Willful Conduct

Epstein Becker Green Lawyers Anthony Argiropoulos, Theodora McCormick, William Gibson, and Maximilian Cadmus Argue for Amicus Curiae New Jersey Doctor-Patient Alliance...more

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

New Jersey Supreme Court Ruling Clarifies Standards for Punitive Damages in Medical Malpractice Actions

On August 25, 2022, the Supreme Court of New Jersey issued its decision in Rivera v. The Valley Hospital, Inc., reversing the trial judge’s interlocutory order denying the defendants’ motions to dismiss a claim for punitive...more

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Five Emerging Concerns for the Health Care Industry as AI & Telehealth Converge

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The use of telehealth continues to grow rapidly across the U.S. Given legislative proposals and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services efforts to expand access to telehealth, we can only anticipate that remotely...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Unprecedented: COVID-19 Litigation Insights, Volume 2, Issue 14

Welcome to the 14th issue of the 2021 edition of Unprecedented. Predictions of an end to the COVID-19 pandemic from even a few months ago have been called into question by the highly contagious Delta variant, with some...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Product Liability Update - August 2020

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Foley Hoag LLP publishes this quarterly Update primarily concerning developments in product liability and related law from federal and state courts applicable to Massachusetts, but also featuring selected developments for New...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine: What We Know About Off-Label Use of Drugs and Potential Malpractice Claims in Ohio

On April 24, 2020, the FDA issued a Drug Safety Communication about the known side effects of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine – the antimalarial drugs being used to treat Covid-19. These side effects include serious and...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

FDA Takes Strong Action to Protect Patients — Breast Institute at JFK Medical Center

West Palm Beach, Florida - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has recently taken the extraordinary step of requiring The Breast Institute at the JFK Medical Center North, located at 2201 45th Street in West Palm...more

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Secrecy in drug and medical device lawsuits can imperil patients, experts say

The civil justice system, by regularly closing off and keeping secret key parts of lawsuits involving medical devices and prescription drugs, may contribute to patients’ serious injuries and deaths, according to a “special...more

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As FDA warns of implant perils, new questions arise about 3D mammograms

Angry women, anxious that officials were failing to protect their health, besieged a federal Food and Drug Administration hearing in the spring. That unusual outcry may have helped push regulators off their bureaucratic...more

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It’s a season to get ripe view of money-grasping Big Pharma and plutocrats

For those who get a rise out of following the plight of plundering plutocrats, forget about pop culture shows like Succession, Dynasty, or Empire. Instead, it may be worth peeking in on the true-life Sackler family saga. It...more

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Big Pharma flinches in opioids suits: a J&J loss in Okla. and a Sackler bid

Big Pharma has hit at least two pain points of potential significance as government officials and trial lawyers work to hold drug makers accountable for at least some of the carnage caused by prescription painkillers....more

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FDA ripped over breast implant safety as agency seeks mammogram change

Uncle Sam has paid what critics have called long overdue attention to women’s breasts and how surgeons and diagnosticians treat them....more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

The FDA’s Latest Warning: A Good Reminder Regarding the Litigation Risks of Off-Label Use

Last week, the FDA issued a warning against the use of robotic surgery for mastectomy and other cancer-related procedures. ...more

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Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - March 2019

Most 21st century Americans would condemn dated practices damaging to women like neck stretching, foot binding, and ritual genital mutilation. Does modern medicine, however, need its own reckoning now for what the profession...more

Saul Ewing LLP

2019 Health Care Predictions

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INTRODUCTION - The Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr, LLP health care practice group includes attorneys that handle regulatory, compliance, transactional and litigation needs for clients across the entire health care delivery...more

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K&L Gates Triage: Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, including the use of algorithms and computer software to analyze complex data and perform certain decision making functions without direct human involvement, are rapidly developing in...more

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Trump Administration Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Budget and Healthcare Programs

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The Trump Administration on Feb. 12 released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget request, titled "An American Budget." Unlike last year's budget, which was released in late May, the release of this budget conforms to the typical...more

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Artificial Intelligence and Health Care—Key Regulatory Considerations for U.S. Operations

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The Situation: Artificial intelligence is being used in innovative ways in the health care industry to drive down costs and improve clinical outcomes. The Issue: The health care industry, including the provision of health...more

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South Florida Breast Exams — Mammogram Quality in Question

Mammogram Studies and Their Quality - Medical professionals have debated the frequency and relative age for performing mammogram studies on women; some claiming that once yearly is too often and under 50 years old is too...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Bacteria Found in Cardiac Patients Linked to Heater-Cooler Machine

Heater-Cooler Machine Spreads Germs in Sterile Areas - The medical device sounds well-intended enough: a heater-cooler machine used during heart surgery to control a patient’s body temperature. Doctors employ them in the...more

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Washington Healthcare Update

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This Week: The Affordable Care Act turned 6 years old on March 23... Four in ten voters say health care is extremely important when picking a President, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation’s new tracking poll......more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Health Update - July 2015

Lessons From the Frontlines: Strategies for Supporting Informed Consumer Decision-Making in the Health Insurance Marketplace - Editor's Note: As marketplaces prepare for the third open enrollment period, consumers are...more

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