3091 ABA Journal Health Law articles.
A guilty plea by the company that makes OxyContin caps the latest of several federal prosecutions against companies for making misleading statements about pharmaceuticals.
Purdue Pharma agreed to pay $600…
May 11, 2007 1:49 PM CDT
Purdue Pharma L.P. has pleaded guilty to misleading the public about the risk of addiction to the painkiller OxyContin.
Three current and former company executives have also entered pleas, according…
May 10, 2007 5:25 PM CDT
An Irish court has ruled that a pregnant 17-year-old who is in the care of the government has the right to travel to England for a legal abortion, as some…
May 10, 2007 12:16 AM CDT
Patients who took the anti-psychotic drug Seroquel filed more than 350 lawsuits last month in Delaware state courts.
The filings could be an effort to force drug maker AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals…
May 9, 2007 12:14 PM CDT
New Zealand veterans of the Vietnam War reportedly may sue their government for billions of dollars in compensation for injuries allegedly caused by use of the dioxin-containing defoliant Agent Orange.
…May 7, 2007 8:09 PM CDT
A case pending before a California appeals court contends Blue Shield of California suddenly canceled coverage for a policyholder, resulting in delayed surgery and lasting injury.
At issue is whether…
May 7, 2007 6:16 PM CDT
Even though an adoption agency apparently intentionally withheld information about severe mental illness among the parents and grandparents of a child from his adoptive family decades ago, it cannot be…
May 4, 2007 10:27 PM CDT
A drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis pits the rights of those who are infected against those of the public.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the percentage of patients…
May 3, 2007 2:27 PM CDT
An Arizona man with tuberculosis has been confined to a hospital’s jail ward since August because he did not wear a mask in public or take prescribed medications.
“It’s not…
May 2, 2007 4:59 PM CDT
Responding to a drug-resistant bacteria that kills thousands of Americans annually, Illinois is likely to be the first state to mandate an aggressive hospital testing and treatment program to try…
Apr 30, 2007 5:54 PM CDT
Twenty-three Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies have settled with physicians who claim they are not being paid properly.
Under the class-action settlement, the insurers will contribute about $128 million…
Apr 30, 2007 3:15 PM CDT
Juries in medical malpractice cases find for physicians more often than plaintiffs, a researcher told the New Jersey Law Journal.
Around 30 percent of medical…
Apr 26, 2007 12:47 PM CDT
Last week’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to ban so-called partial birth abortion has sparked contentious discussion about the religious views of the nine justices who rendered the 5-4…
Apr 24, 2007 8:59 PM CDT
Six lawsuits filed in federal courts claim Schering-Plough Corp. offered bribes and kickbacks to physicians to prescribe medications for off-label uses.
The suits, pending in New Jersey and Arizona, claim…
Apr 24, 2007 1:09 PM CDT
No basis has been found for ethics charges brought by abortion opponents against a state court judge in Sedgwick County, Kan.
District Judge Paul W. Clark had been accused of…
Apr 23, 2007 11:21 PM CDT
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