
FDA On Legal Tightrope In Push To Restrict Drug Ads
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration helped unleash a flood of "direct to consumer" drug advertisements in the 1990s. Copious First Amendment protections for such commercial speech will be tough for the Trump administration to outmaneuver.

The Limits On Blue States' Push For Vaccine Policy Control
Democratic-run states are changing vaccine policies as HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other Trump health officials move to restrict vaccine access, creating a new policy patchwork. Those state efforts can only go so far, healthcare experts say.

Healthcare Deals This Week: Novartis, LB, Lila Sciences
A handful of sizable deals made headlines this past week, including a rare public offering from the pharmaceutical industry and a potential multibillion-dollar bet on the "molecular glue" space.
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Yale New Haven Health Services Corp., Connecticut's largest hospital system, has reached a settlement in principle with bankrupt Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. that would resolve a $435 million contract disput... (more story)
Biopharmaceutical company BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc. must face a proposed investor class alleging it misrepresented feedback from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding clinical trials for an A... (more story)
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson vowed Tuesday to take unspecified "action" against tactics by merging companies to propose fixes only after antitrust enforcers bring a transaction challenge, ... (more story)
European life sciences venture capital firm EQT Life Sciences on Tuesday announced that its portfolio company VarmX, a Netherlands-based biotech, has entered into an exclusive option agreement to be bought by ... (more story)
An early investor in the Oura health and fitness tracker is fighting Ouraring Inc.'s attempt to send his $16 million dispute to arbitration in Finland, saying there is no underlying agreement to arbitrate and ... (more story)
Novartis is placing a potential $5.7 billion bet on Monte Rosa Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech company, to develop new treatments for immune-related diseases, Monte Rosa said on Monday.
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A California federal judge has refused to disturb a jury verdict that found Meta Platforms Inc. liable for using an online tracking tool to unlawfully obtain sensitive health data that users entered into the F... (more story)
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to open an investigation into Microsoft's "gross cybersecurity negligence" that has allegedly contributed to cyberattacks against critica... (more story)
A California judge has trimmed a proposed class action from shareholders of glucose monitor manufacturer DexCom Inc. who allege they were damaged by the company's misrepresentations regarding its ability to ke... (more story)
Epic Systems Corp. must face allegations it violated federal law by attempting to monopolize a segment of the electronic health records market to the exclusion of competitor Particle Health Inc. Here's what yo... (more story)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's internal artificial intelligence tool, new medical device guidance and a warning about wearable technology. Law360 Healthcare Authority explores these and other issues h... (more story)
The U.S. Department of Justice's recent False Claims Act settlement with Illumina over alleged cybersecurity deficiencies suggests that enforcement agencies and whistleblowers are focusing attention toward cyb... (more story)
Policy & Compliance More
Susan Monarez, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told federal lawmakers on Wednesday she was abruptly fired just weeks into her tenure for "holding the line on scientific integrity."
A Washington state appeals court unanimously ruled Tuesday that the Washington Medical Commission overstepped its authority by punishing a doctor for COVID-19 falsehoods he published to his blog, but affirmed ... (more story)
A pair of nurses who worked at Harborview Health Systems' facility in Rome, Georgia, brought enough evidence to show they and other similarly situated nurses were subjected to pay practices that shorted them o... (more story)
Merck & Co. told the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a bid from physicians looking to revive antitrust claims over submissions the pharmaceutical giant made to federal regulators concerning its mumps vaccine, arg... (more story)
The Federal Trade Commission said three members of Sevita Health's board of directors resigned after enforcers flagged an overlap with the board of a competing provider of specialty healthcare for people with ... (more story)
Oregon has joined a number of states that have enacted laws that make it easier for people to get a "five needle" therapy with a raft of mental health benefits, including reduced substance withdrawal symptoms.