/health?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Health Copyright 2025 Â鶹´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:04:02 +0000 /health/articles/2350526?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2350526 Masimo Corp. fought back against founder Joe Kiani's motion to dismiss the company's Delaware Chancery Court suit seeking a declaration that he's not due a $450 million payout after his ouster as CEO, arguing that bid is an "improper attempt to evade" the Delaware court's jurisdiction. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:56:46 +0000 /health/articles/2350693?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2350693 Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart on Friday turned away a series of challenges to Welch Allyn Inc.'s heart monitor patents, determining petitioner iRhythm Technologies Inc. should have disputed them much earlier. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:15:49 +0000 /health/articles/2350544?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2350544 R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco producers have accused Philip Morris USA of trying to derail a deal with Washington state last spring to resolve longstanding payment disputes stemming from Big Tobacco's 1998 master settlement agreement, according to a new lawsuit in Washington state court. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:41:38 +0000 /health/articles/2349973?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2349973 The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals said the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs must pay an oxygen equipment supplier more than $133,000 in delivery fees, finding no support for the agency's position that the fees are limited to "one-time or one-off type" deliveries. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:39:50 +0000 /health/articles/2350391?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2350391 Stablecoin issuer Circle's explosive debut will likely stimulate more crypto listings and possibly jolt the broader pipeline of initial public offerings, capital markets attorneys say. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:28:48 +0000 /health/articles/2350542?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2350542 The Texas Supreme Court on Friday greenlit a suit accusing a gynecologist of negligently giving a patient a note stating that she required a service dog which later mauled a toddler, saying the alleged negligence is not a malpractice claim, therefore the plaintiffs did not need a medical expert's opinion. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:27:32 +0000 /health/articles/2349368?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2349368 The U.S. Supreme Court declined Friday to review a decision that telemedicine patents asserted against the U.S. government are invalid for claiming only abstract ideas, in the court's latest refusal to reconsider the standard for determining if inventions are eligible for patents. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:03:07 +0000 /health/articles/2349496?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2349496 Johnson & Johnson health tech unit Biosense Webster's bill in an antitrust trial was upped from $147 million to $442 million after a California federal jury found it stifled competition by conditioning the provision of cardiac mapping services on purchases of cardiac catheters. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:45:48 +0000 /health/articles/2349018?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2349018 A Florida federal judge on Friday denied a bid to toss a pharmaceutical company's lawsuit accusing a rival of stealing trade secrets because its headquarters moved to the Sunshine State after its initial complaint, saying there was "complete diversity at the time of filing of action." Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:35:50 +0000 /health/articles/2350161?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2350161 Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Â鶹´«Ã½360 Real Estate Authority — including where the hotel sector stands at the midyear, which states are trying to curb healthcare investment models and what is fueling the surge in the real estate secondaries market. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:28:08 +0000 /health/articles/2350551?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2350551 Washington appellate judges expressed skepticism on Friday regarding an ambulance company's stance that qualified immunity shielded it from a patient estate's $2.3 million jury verdict over a mid-transport crash, while also casting doubt on the family's contention that the defendant had forfeited its appeal rights. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:52:39 +0000 /health/articles/2350480?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2350480 The twice-bankrupt drug store chain Rite Aid is seeking to reassure landlords who filed a spate of objections in recent days that it intends to continue meeting lease obligations despite its move to close some locations. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:38:27 +0000 /health/articles/2350034?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2350034 The Texas attorney general's office told the state's Supreme Court that a lower court went too far by blocking an investigation into an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization that allegedly had knowledge about outside parties performing gender-affirming care on minors, saying the court undermined the AG's investigative authority. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:33:19 +0000 /health/articles/2350529?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2350529 A New Jersey state appeals court on Friday backed the state's Department of Banking and Insurance in denying a long-term care insurer's request to increase its policy rates, agreeing that the proposed triple-digit rate increase on aging policyholders was excessive. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:30:07 +0000 /health/articles/2350507?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2350507 A Pennsylvania federal judge declined to certify a class of as many as 25,00 healthcare providers who say they received unsolicited fax advertisements, saying there was no way to determine which plaintiffs received the ads via traditional, stand-alone fax machines and which received them through online fax services. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:13:37 +0000 /health/articles/2350332?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2350332 A Federal Circuit panel on Friday wrestled with its authority to consider arbitration appeals dealing with patent law, with at least one judge appearing skeptical that it could consider Acorda Therapeutics Inc.'s bid to increase a $16.6 million award in a fight with Alkermes PLC over a multiple sclerosis drug. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:34:34 +0000 /health/articles/2350458?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2350458 A New York federal judge on Thursday rebuffed an attempt from CVS Health Corp. to evade responsibility in a False Claims Act case, after a jury found that its subsidiary Omnicare bilked the federal government out of over $135 million in fraudulent drug claims.  Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:51:49 +0000 /health/articles/2350457?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2350457 A Connecticut drug treatment facility does not have to face claims, including unfair trade practices, lodged by a prospective competitor amid a contentious permit battle, a state appellate panel ruled Friday, finding that the state's anti-SLAPP statute is fatal to the case. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:39:52 +0000 /health/articles/2350580?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2350580 Aetna is seeking an immediate midstream appeal of an order in Connecticut federal court forcing it to face $20 million in emergency billing claims by six air ambulance companies, saying a quick decision could help settle a circuit split and stop copycat cases. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:25:35 +0000 /health/articles/2348857?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2348857 The U.S. government has filed a False Claims Act suit against a Florida medical billing and compliance services company for allegedly filing claims to Medicare for more than $15 million in medically unnecessary genetic laboratory tests.