Orange County, New York has filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma LP, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ, N) and other drug makers alleging they engaged in fraudulent marketing that played down the risks of prescription opioid painkillers leading the drug epidemic.
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Authorities confirmed ten people have been charged after they find a marijuana joint inside an Easter basket at a child’s school.
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Patricia Minaldi was removed from several cases last December and has been diagnosed with a serious brain disorder caused by severe alcohol abuse.
Mylan has been in the news a lot lately, and now that it’s facing a “new proposed class action lawsuit over the price of its EpiPen allergy treatment,” the company is bound to be in the news even more in coming months. The lawsuit was filed by three EpiPen purchasers on Monday in Tacoma, Washington federal court, claiming that “Mylan engaged in a scheme with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).” What are PBMs? They’re “companies that act as intermediaries between pharmacies, insurers and drug companies – to dominate the market and overcharge consumers.”
As states move to legalized cannabis, the opioid epidemic may be curtailed.
Reed Smith law partner Stewart Dolin threw himself in front of a Chicago Transit Authority train in 2010 and widow is arguing Paxil may have been the cause.
While President Trump might not have realized how complex fixing healthcare could be, pretty much everyone else had some idea. What people may not fully realize is that the private sector isn’t as virtuously free of the kinds of waste, fraud, and abuse that are typically attributed only to government. Putting a dent in these money pits would go a long way towards bringing cheaper healthcare to desperate people.