The AP (5/21, Yost) reports, The Obama White House on Wednesday undid a Bush administration policy that used federal regulations to undermine a wide range of state health, safety and environmental…
All Americans can celebrate the breaking news regarding a landmark achievement that was announced today in Washington D.C. From now on, the regulatory preemption of state common law will be strictly…
The Wall Street Journal (5/20, Rockoff) reports, Plaintiffs’ lawyers in lawsuits against AstraZeneca PLC plan to…release documents they say show executives at the drugmaker discussed…
Another traffic injury left a bicycle rider in critical condition on Sunday near the place where a motorcyclist died earlier in the day. The bicyclist was injured on Kamehameha highway near a 7-11…
A motorcyclist died as a result of a crash is Kaaawa on Sunday. The motorcyclist’s 10-year-old daughter was a passenger when they were struck by an Hawaiian Telcom truck that was turning into the…
The Wall Street Journal (5/19, Johnson) reports, The Justice Department and 16 states joined two whistleblower lawsuits alleging that Wyeth defrauded the government by offering discounts to…
I can’t believe what I am watching. My president and his liberal friends have sold Americans health care hopes to corporate greed. The insurnace industry wins again. Does anyone out there care?…
The Journal of the National Cancer Institute reports that they have found a continuing “possible link” between formaldehyde exposure and death from cancers of the blood and lymphatic…
Bloomberg News (5/16, Fisk) reported, Pfizer Inc. the world’s largest drugmaker, won’t face class-action lawsuits by health-insurance companies and patients on claims it improperly marketed the…
At a Thursday town hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, President Obama called for passage of a bill that seeks to curb practices from credit card companies that some deem abusive. The story is…
CQ HealthBeat (5/14, Kim) reports that the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee heard witness testimony on a measure that would allow consumers to sue companies under state law…
Jason Gale and Simeon Bennett of Bloomberg report on 13 May 2009 that Adrian Gibbs, 75, who collaborated on research that led to the development of Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu drug, said in…