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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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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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The South Dakota House on Tuesday unanimously voted to approve legislation (SB 65) that would require people who have been convicted of intentionally spreading HIV to register as sex offenders after being released from prison, the AP/Rapid City Journal reports (AP/Rapid City Journal, 2/19). The Senate approved the measure last ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
A three-judge panel of the Massachusetts Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled that MassHealth, the state's Medicaid provider, must review its decision to deny a claim filed in 2004 on behalf on a 15-year-old HIV-positive girl who underwent surgery to remove a growth on her neck caused by antiretroviral drugs, ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 8-1 that FDA approval of certain medical devices protects manufacturers from product liability lawsuits filed in state courts, the New York Times reports. According to the Times, federal law "makes no provision for damage suits against device makers," and, as a result, "injured ...
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