Tag: Legal
Serious Misdiagnosis-Related Harms Mostly Due to ‘Big Three’
Vascular events, infections, cancers account for 74.1 percent of high-severity misdiagnosis-related harms
DOJ Asks Congress to Permanently Classify Fentanyl-Like Drugs
2018 temporary order that tightened controls on fentanyl-like drugs expires in February 2020
New York State Halts Religious Vaccine Exemption
Those who support the bill say that religion should not trump science
Maine Legalizes Assisted Suicide
Doctors can now prescribe lethal dose of a drug to terminally ill and it will not be legally a suicide
California Bill to Tighten Vaccine Exemptions Moves Forward
State public health officials would have the authority to decide which children qualify for medical exemptions
Clinical Drug Diversion Costly to Health Care Organizations
Report finds 47.2 million doses lost due to health care worker misuse and theft in 2018
North Carolina Sues Electronic Cigarette Maker JUUL
Also, judge has ruled that the FDA neglected its legal duty by postponing reviews of vaping products
Sixty People Charged in Massive Opioid Painkiller Investigation
Individuals linked to about 350,000 prescriptions and 32 million pills
Terminally Ill People in New Jersey Given Right to End Lives
New law allows adults with a prognosis of six months or less to live to get a prescription for life-ending pills
$775 Million Settlement Reached in Xarelto Lawsuits
Patients claim companies failed to warn about the risk for potentially fatal bleeding episodes
