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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
Cancer is unfortunately a common medical condition that affects many people in this country. It affects children, adolescents, and adults. The types of cancer that affect each age group can vary widely. Cancer itself can also...more
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
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
Uncle Sam has paid what critics have called long overdue attention to women’s breasts and how surgeons and diagnosticians treat them....more
Last week, the FDA issued a warning against the use of robotic surgery for mastectomy and other cancer-related procedures. ...more
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
The rising flood of health care hype, bunk, and conflicts of interst really can harm patients, as has just been emphasized by a $105-million jury verdict, the brave actions of a leading patient advocacy expert, and the...more
On January 31, 2018, New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed into law Senate Bill S 7588-A, which amended the statute of limitations for medical, dental and podiatric malpractice cases where there is an alleged failure...more
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
We have all seen the catchy T-shirts for the Susan B. Komen walks “Protect the Tatas.” Few adult diseases have received as much fund-raising attention as Breast Cancer, and for good reason....more