All the headlines from our Drugs Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 30 2007 // Next year’s federal Vioxx trials may focus on people who had strokes after taking the once popular painkiller, the judge assigned to handle pretrial matters in all 8,575 federal lawsuits said last Friday.“We...
Jul 30 2007 // Two months ago, Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland was in Washington expressing dismay to a Senate panel that government policies prevented her from protecting elderly Oklahoma consumers from unscrupulous Medicare...
Jul 23 2007 // A motorist accused of “huffing” stimulants from an aerosol can before getting into a deadly wreck cannot be charged with driving while intoxicated, New York’s highest court ruled recently.The Legislature...
Jul 23 2007 // A motorist accused of “huffing” stimulants from an aerosol can before getting into a deadly wreck cannot be charged with driving while intoxicated, New York’s highest court ruled recently.The Legislature...
Jul 23 2007 // The co-worker and the shop foreman testified that McIntosh didn’t appear to be impaired by marijuana use before the accident.Tenn. court: marijuana not a factor in worker’s injury The Tennessee Supreme Court...
Jul 17 2007 // One in 12 full-time workers in the United States acknowledges having used illegal drugs in the past month, the U.S. government reports.Most of those who report using illicit drugs are employed full-time, with the highest...
Jul 9 2007 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a worker whose hand was crushed by machinery at his workplace was not to blame for the accident despite his admitted marijuana use off the job.Billy McIntosh was injured in 2004...
Jun 29 2007 // A motorist accused of “huffing” stimulants from an aerosol can before getting into a deadly wreck cannot be charged with driving while intoxicated, New York’s highest court ruled Wednesday.The Legislature...
Jun 20 2007 // Lawyers who helped a heart attack victim win a $13.5 million jury verdict in a Vioxx liability case should be paid about $4 million in legal fees by Merck & Co., a New Jersey judge has ruled.Merck, which made the...
Jun 18 2007 // After being available for four years, Health Savings Accounts (HSA) combined with a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) are finally catching on. A recent nationwide study indicated that 26 percent of U.S. companies with 500...
Apr 20 2007 // Prompted by complaints from Maine consumers, the Legislature has enacted a law to prohibit insurance agents who schedule appointments to discuss Medicare from trying to interest people in other policies.Gov. John Baldacci...
Apr 16 2007 // A federal judge in New Jersey has dismissed a securities class action lawsuit brought against Merck & Co. by investors over its one-time blockbuster drug Vioxx because the statute of limitations has run out.Investors...
Apr 9 2007 // The board that oversees Massachusetts’ landmark health insurance law voted last month to delay key elements of the plan by a year and a half to give residents and businesses a chance to ramp up their health care...
Apr 9 2007 // Mass. extends deadline for residents to buy health coverageThe board that oversees Massachusetts’ landmark health insurance law voted last month to delay key elements of the plan by a year and a half to give...
Apr 2 2007 // A Benton County, Ark., man has sued his former employer, claiming that he was fired for not attending a specific church as ordered by his boss.Clifford D. Randel filed the lawsuit in Benton County Circuit Court against...
Mar 28 2007 // Lauri Osborne of Plymouth, Conn. feared the worst when she learned of the national pet food recall.One of her cats had already died from kidney failure and two became seriously ill. All three of the Plymouth woman’s...
Mar 22 2007 // The board that oversees Massachusetts’ landmark health insurance law voted this week to delay key elements of the plan by a year and a half to give residents and businesses a chance to ramp up their health care...
Mar 21 2007 // Health insurers and union health plans nationwide should not be allowed to sue Merck & Co. jointly to recover money they paid for Vioxx prescriptions, a lawyer for the drug maker argued this week in opposing a lawsuit...
Mar 20 2007 // Many current Congressional health care proposals could significantly reduce the number of uninsured Americans and also decrease overall health care expenditures including those for insurance administration and prescription...
Mar 15 2007 // Merck & Co.’s painkiller Vioxx contributed to an Idaho postal worker’s heart attack, a jury in Atlantic City has ruled, reversing the verdict in the man’s first trial and hitting Merck with a total...