All the headlines from our Drugs Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 23 2012 // Florida small businesses seeing their second workers’ compensation rate increase in as many years are calling on the state to reduce the increase because they fear it will harm the economy.A small business group is...
Jan 21 2012 // A federal judge in Boston has ordered 14 drug companies to negotiate settlements for 53 women who claim their breast cancer was caused by an anti-miscarriage drug their mothers took decades ago. Lawyers for the women said...
Jan 20 2012 // A lawsuit in which Texas accused Johnson & Johnson of plundering the state Medicaid program by overstating the safety of an expensive anti-psychotic drug and improperly influencing officials and doctors to push the...
Jan 16 2012 // Florida small businesses seeing their second workers’ compensation rate increase in as many years are calling on the state to reduce the increase because they fear it will harm the economy.A small business group is...
Jan 10 2012 // Arline MacCormack first heard about DES from her mother when she was 17.Three decades later, MacCormack believes that the drug her mother took to prevent miscarriages caused her to develop breast cancer at age 44....
Jan 9 2012 // Indiana officials say a drug testing program that started in July for people seeking job training has led to about 2 percent of applicants failing. The state Department of Workforce Development says 13 people, or 1...
Dec 30 2011 // Indiana officials say a drug testing program that started in July for people seeking job training has led to about 2 percent of applicants failing. The state Department of Workforce Development says 13 people, or 1...
Dec 14 2011 // A nurse with a prior felony conviction for forging prescriptions dilutes morphine solutions for five Halstead, Kan., nursing home patients. Another nurse convicted of stealing drugs from patients at an Emporia home gets...
Dec 8 2011 // A Philadelphia jury has awarded three women $72.6 million in compensatory damages over their use of the hormone therapy drug Prempro and more could be coming when punitive damages are determined. The Philadelphia Inquirer...
Dec 6 2011 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater has named Daniel Anderson to serve as the state’s lead insurance fraud investigator. Anderson will take over as the director of the state’s Division of Insurance...
Dec 6 2011 // After decades in relative obscurity, a U.S. legal doctrine that holds corporate officers liable for company wrongdoing is finding its way back into some high-profile healthcare prosecutions.The “responsible corporate...
Nov 29 2011 // Florida officials are looking for ways to reduce the state government’s workers’ compensation costs and considering changing some mandates that grant first responders automatic benefits and reducing...
Nov 22 2011 // Four Louisiana physicians wrote hundreds of bogus prescriptions that powered multimillion-dollar health-care frauds in the Baton Rouge area, according to evidence amassed by the nearly two-year-old local Medicare Fraud...
Nov 21 2011 // A new report on medical services casts light on how different combinations of medical services contribute to workers’ compensation claim costs over time.Understanding what combinations of medical services are used...
Nov 7 2011 // Employers in Florida will be paying more for workers’ compensation next year following the state insurance chief’s approval of an 8.9 percent statewide average rate hike.Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin...
Nov 4 2011 // A new report on medical services casts light on how different combinations of medical services contribute to workers’ compensation claim costs over time.Understanding what combinations of medical services are used...
Nov 3 2011 // In an effort to lower workers’ compensation costs, Florida lawmakers are proposing to limit the amount physicians can charge for providing patients with prescription drugs.State Sen. Alan Hays (R-Umatilla) and Rep....
Nov 1 2011 // A string of courtroom victories by drugmakers in key product liability trials could be a signal that these and other companies can beat back claims in upcoming cases against them.AstraZeneca Plc, Merck & Co. and Pfizer...
Oct 27 2011 // Alabama regulators are preparing to hold a public hearing on a proposed statewide average 9.3 percent decrease in the state’s workers’ compensation rates.The National Council on Compensation Insurance submitted...
Oct 25 2011 // Employers in Florida will be paying more for workers’ compensation coverage next year following the state insurance chief’s approval of an 8.9 percent statewide average rate hike.Florida Insurance Commissioner...