Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
AIDS Healthcare Foundation has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against the city of Los Angeles to stop it from foreclosing a former AIDS hospice that now serves as an office for the organization's case managers, the Los Angeles Times reports.
AHF opened the hospice, called the Linn House, ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Johnson County, Kan., District Attorney Phill Kline (R) on Tuesday filed a motion with a state judge in support of a grand jury subpoena of records from Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri's clinic, Comprehensive Health, related to their handling of fetal tissue after abortions, the AP/Google.com reports. PPKM filed ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Congressional Democrats on Wednesday said that they plan to draft legislation to overturn a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that protects medical device companies from some product liability lawsuits, the New York Times reports (Feder, New York Times, 2/22).
Earlier on Wednesday, the court ruled 8-1 in the case Riegel ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Covidien Ltd. (NYSE: COV; BSX: COV) today announced that a federal jury has ruled in favor of the Company in the patent litigation case Applied Medical Resources Corp. v. United States Surgical. The jury ruled that United States Surgical, a Covidien subsidiary, does not infringe Applied Medical's U.S. Patent No. ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Houston's own University General Hospital places its commitment to patient safety at the forefront in making decisions regarding design and technology. Against the backdrop of a dramatic increase in the number of hospital medication errors in the last fifteen years, University General mitigates the risk of such events with an ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Level I trauma centers may have very different results when treating patients, even when they have similar injuries. This was analyzed in a report on February 18, 2008 in the Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Trauma centers have been established in most states, thanks to years of dedicated ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Level I trauma centers may have very different results when treating patients, even when they have similar injuries. This was analyzed in a report on February 18, 2008 in the Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Trauma centers have been established in most states, thanks to years of dedicated ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Health Net, alleging that the health insurer sold individual policies to consumers with the intention of dropping coverage if they needed costly treatment, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to the lawsuit, the company defrauded thousands of policyholders ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Citing "significant issues" regarding patient privacy and a grand jury's authority to issue subpoenas, the chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked enforcement of a grand jury subpoena from Sedgwick County, Kan., of medical records of women who obtained abortions after their 21st week of pregnancy ...
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