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Latest News in Life Sciences
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May 01, 2025
HHS Report Finds 'Serious Concerns' On Trans Care For Youth
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday released a report it says raises "serious concerns" about medical interventions used to aid young people in gender transition.
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May 01, 2025
CR Bard Owes For Plant Neighbor's Illness, Jury Told
A Georgia jury heard in closing arguments on Thursday that C.R. Bard's medical sterilization plant wantonly polluted the air with ethylene oxide and caused a man's cancer, while the company said the man's exposure was nowhere near danger levels.
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May 01, 2025
Couple's J&J Pelvic Mesh Claims Too Late, 11th Circ. Affirms
The Eleventh Circuit held Thursday that a couple's lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson over injuries allegedly caused by a pelvic mesh device made by the company's med-tech unit was filed too late despite evidence that the woman's doctors had expressed uncertainty for years about whether the mesh was causing her pain.
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May 01, 2025
Publix Can't Slip 'Zero-Market Share' Opioid Claims
Publix Super Markets Inc. can't slip opioid-related claims from nine municipalities in which the supermarket chain alleges it has no pharmacies, an Ohio federal judge overseeing sprawling national opioid litigation ruled.
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May 01, 2025
PBMs Tell 6th Circ. Ohio's Pricing Case Belongs In Fed Court
Express Scripts and Prime Therapeutics urged the Sixth Circuit to undo a district court order returning a lawsuit from Ohio's attorney general alleging they drove up prescription drug prices to state court, arguing Wednesday an after-the-fact disclaimer of federal program-based claims isn't enough to sever a federal law connection.

Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. International Trade Commission
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Affordable Care Act
- Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
- Antitrust and consumer protection controls
- Drug and medical device lobbying
- State and international life sciences legislation and regulation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Drug and medical device recalls
- Drug safety actions
- Pay-for-delay investigations
- Merger reviews
- LITIGATION
- Patent disputes, including
- Abbreviated New Drug Application litigation
- Section 301 cases
- Product safety suits over drugs and medical devices, including off-label marketing and failure-to-warn claims
- Consumer litigation and class actions
- Fraud and compliance suits
- Antitrust disputes
- Labor and employment suits
- Shareholder and corporate governance disputes
- Bankruptcy proceedings
- TRANSACTIONS
- Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures
- Share buybacks and stock splits
- Private equity deals
- Patent-licensing agreements
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of life sciences practice groups
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- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Executives and attorneys in the drug, biotechnology, and medical device industries
- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
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