Latest Drugs Headlines
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Georgia Man Sentenced in Crash Blamed on Prescription Drug
May 15 2012 // A Georgia man will serve 15 years in prison after being convicted of DUI and homicide by vehicle. A Pierce County jury has convicted 37-year-old Clinton Deloach Jr. of Patterson of being under the influence of prescription...
Senate Panel to Probe Ties Between Painkill Drugmakers, Medical Nonprofits
May 10 2012 // A U.S. Senate panel has launched a probe of possible links between three drugmakers and nonprofit medical groups that advocated for increasing the use of prescription painkillers, now the target of a nationwide law...
Judge: Mississippi Lawyer Owes Diet Drug Claimants $600K
May 10 2012 // A judge has ruled that a Jackson attorney owes two former clients a combined $600,000 from more than $4.5 million in attorney fees he received in a diet drug settlement case dating to the early 2000s. The Clarion-Ledger...
Mississippi Lawmakers Pass Workers’ Compensation Changes Backed by Employers
May 2 2012 // Mississippi legislators offered sharply different views of a bill they passed Monday to change the way compensation is awarded to workers injured on the job, or to survivors of those killed at work. If Republican Gov. Phil...
Regulators Urged to Monitor Safety Throughout Drug’s Lifecycle
May 2 2012 // The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should review drugs on a regular basis for as long as they are on the market in order to catch any new safety issues, according to a report from an independent research body. The...
Insurer Says It’s Not Liable for Drug-Related Fire in Michigan
Apr 30 2012 // An insurance company claims it should be reimbursed after a fire linked to drugs badly damaged a house in Bay City, Mich. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance of Columbus, Ohio, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to recover...
Idaho To Receive $85K In Medicaid Fraud Settlement
Apr 26 2012 // Idaho will receive about $85,000 from two separate Medicaid fraud settlements with prescription drug manufacturers. State Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said Tuesday that a settlement with KV Pharmaceutical will net the...
New York to Get $61M in Drug Company Settlement on Vioxx
Apr 23 2012 // New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says New York will get $61 million from last week’s national settlement with drug maker Merck & Co. to resolve an investigation into the marketing of the painkiller...
States’ Group Considers Model Workers’ Compensation Drug Bill
Apr 12 2012 // In the wake of the Florida Legislature’s failure to cut physician reimbursements for prescribing repackaged drugs to workers’ compensation patients, a national group of state legislators is looking to create a...
U.S., Europe Urged to Offer Product Safety Training to Importers
Apr 6 2012 // Food and drug regulators in the U.S., Europe and other developed countries should offer training, technology and expertise to developing nations in Asia, Latin America and other regions to better assure the safety of...
Florida Passes Workers’ Comp Changes
Apr 2 2012 // While debates over property insurance and no-fault auto insurance consumed the attention of state officials and the media, Florida lawmakers quietly dealt with several other insurance issues, including workers’...
Judge Approves $158M Drug Settlement in Texas Lawsuit
Mar 29 2012 // A Texas judge has finalized a $158 million settlement between Texas and a subsidiary of health care giant Johnson & Johnson in a Medicaid fraud lawsuit over the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal. The agreement, reached...
Judge Orders Feds to Begin Proceedings to Remove Antibiotics in Animal Feed
Mar 23 2012 // A federal judge on Thursday ordered U.S. regulators to start proceedings to withdraw approval for the use of common antibiotics in animal feed, citing concerns that overuse is endangering human health by creating...
Florida Delays Employee Drug Testing Pending Legal Challenge
Mar 21 2012 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s top lawyer has advised state agency heads to hold off on testing their employees for drugs under a new Florida law pending resolution of an existing legal challenge. The Republican governor...
Stoned Driving Epidemic In Colorado, Washington Puts Wrinkle In Pot Debate
Mar 19 2012 // Angeline Chilton says she can’t drive unless she smokes pot. The suburban Denver woman uses medical marijuana to ease multiple sclerosis symptoms and says she’d never get behind the wheel right after smoking....
Court Allows Suspension of Cardinal Health’s Florida Shipping Center
Mar 19 2012 // A U.S. appeals court allowed the government to suspend Cardinal Health Inc.’s license to distribute potentially addictive drugs from a Florida facility, part of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s battle...
Oklahoma Tops in Prescription Painkiller Abuse
Mar 15 2012 // Sherri Carwithin was lying on the hardwood floor of her south Oklahoma City home when police found her body, clad in pajama bottoms and a T-shirt. Perched on her chest was her small dog, Patches, who growled at the...
How Workers’ Compensation Fared in 2012 Florida Legislature
Mar 15 2012 // While their debates over property insurance and no-fault auto insurance consumed the attention of state officials and the media, Florida lawmakers were quietly dealing with several other insurance issues including...
Boston Consumer Group Sues 8 Drugmakers Over Drug Coupons
Mar 8 2012 // Eight drugmakers are being sued by a consumer advocacy group that alleges their programs offering coupons that lower the cost of copayments for brand-name medicines are illegal. Community Catalyst alleges that the...
Court Blocks Drug Enforcement Against Florida’s Cardinal Health, CVS
Mar 5 2012 // A U.S. appeals court has agreed to temporarily allow Cardinal Health Inc. to continue distributing strictly-controlled prescription drugs from a Florida facility, blocking a Drug Enforcement Administration order to suspend...
