Experts Sound Alarm On RFK Jr.'s FDA Funding Ideas
With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promising a major shake-up of federal health agencies in the incoming administration, healthcare experts are sounding the alarm about a looming threat to the fee structure that props up the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the critical drug approval process.
Healthcare Deals This Week: Roche, CHS And More
This week in healthcare saw several high-profile deals focused on cancer treatments, including Roche's blockbuster deal with cell therapy developer Poseida Therapeutics and a $135 million series B round from oncology company Adcendo.
Trump FDA Pick Devoted To Healthcare Price Transparency
The nomination of surgeon Marty Makary to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration elevates a healthcare transparency advocate who authored books on the subject and pushed for hospitals to disclose their standard prices during the first Trump administration.
Experts Sound Alarm On RFK Jr.'s FDA Funding Ideas
With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promising a major shake-up of federal health agencies in the incoming administration, healthcare experts are sounding the alarm about a looming threat to the fee structure that props up the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the critical drug approval process.
Healthcare Deals This Week: Roche, CHS And More
This week in healthcare saw several high-profile deals focused on cancer treatments, including Roche's blockbuster deal with cell therapy developer Poseida Therapeutics and a $135 million series B round from oncology company Adcendo.
Trump FDA Pick Devoted To Healthcare Price Transparency
The nomination of surgeon Marty Makary to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration elevates a healthcare transparency advocate who authored books on the subject and pushed for hospitals to disclose their standard prices during the first Trump administration.
Expert Analysis
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Deals & Corporate Governance More
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has immunity from counterclaims brought by HCA Healthcare in an enforcement suit centered on the for-profit health network's actions since purchasing an Asheville hos... (more story)
In this week's Taxation With Representation, BlackRock buys HPS Investment Partners, TreeHouse Foods Inc. buys Harris Tea, Aya Healthcare acquires Cross Country Healthcare, and Bruin Capital launches a soccer ... (more story)
An Alabama federal judge has given his initial approval for a $2.8 billion settlement inked between Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and a proposed class of medical providers in a more than 12-year-old antit... (more story)
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has fined New York-based LifeSci Capital LLC nearly $1 million over claims that it received and failed to disclose unfair and unreasonable fees for an initial public... (more story)
Sullivan & Worcester LLP has said the Boston firm picked up a team of five intellectual property lawyers, including two partners, from Withers who have expertise in filing patents and working on deals for biotech startups.
Talent software and staffing company Aya Healthcare, steered by Procopio, will acquire Davis Polk & Wardwell-guided Cross Country Healthcare in an $18.61-per-share cash transaction worth roughly $615 million t... (more story)
Digital Health & Technology More
A California federal judge on Thursday permitted Illinois residents to proceed with a pared-down version of their proposed class action accusing Google of violating biometric privacy laws with facial data coll... (more story)
A North Carolina Business Court judge has given his initial seal of approval to a $1.1 million settlement agreement in a data breach class action against Columbus Regional Healthcare System.
Children's Hospital Colorado was hit with a more than $548,000 fine over phishing and cyberattacks that violated patient privacy rules, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has fined a Florida pain management clinic $1.19 million for alleged HIPAA violations involving a former contractor that impermissibly accessed the clinic's ele... (more story)
A North Carolina federal judge on Thursday gave his final seal of approval to a $3.5 million settlement for a class of 9,000 employees who accused healthcare technology company IQVIA of mismanaging its $1.13 b... (more story)
A Colorado federal judge has dismissed a proposed data breach class action against hospital operator CommonSpirit Health, accepting a recommendation that found the lead plaintiff failed to allege any real inju... (more story)
Policy & Compliance More
A Philadelphia jury has cleared B. Braun Medical Inc. of claims that emissions of a sterilizing chemical from a Pennsylvania manufacturing facility caused a neighbor's leukemia.
The Biden administration and mifepristone-maker Danco Laboratories LLC doubled down Friday on their bids to end the litigation challenging federal approvals for the abortion medication, arguing the three inter... (more story)
A Fifth Circuit judge called out inconsistencies in a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services policy, asking the government to explain apparent discrepancies that four Texas anesthesia practices say wil... (more story)
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP and Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP will co-lead a proposed class of investors in consolidated litigation alleging CVS Health Corp. hurt investors as it announced its benef... (more story)
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan wrongfully terminated a Black dermatologist from its network of health providers because of her race, the doctor told a Michigan federal court, alleging the health insurer te... (more story)
The Sixth Circuit reopened a retirement plan mismanagement suit against Parker-Hannifin Corp. and revived a manufacturing company worker's disability benefits bid, while the nation's highest court declined to ... (more story)