The Justice Department has announced criminal charges against 193 defendants, including medical professionals, for their involvement in health care fraud schemes amounting to billions of dollars.
Supreme Court blocks Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy settlement, protecting the Sackler family from opioid epidemic lawsuits and impacting billions in potential settlements.
Judge rules in favor of AHA, declaring HHS's online tracking restrictions unlawful, impacting hospitals' use of web technologies for health information sharing.
A community-engaged intervention aimed at reducing opioid overdose deaths did not demonstrate a statistically significant impact. The HEALing Communities Study Consortium conducted a trial spanning January 2020 to June 2022, coinciding with the COVID-19 pandemic and an increase in fentanyl-related overdoses.
A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine revealed that nicotine-containing e-cigarettes and varenicline significantly outperformed placebo in helping over 40% of participants achieve smoking abstinence at 6 months.
'The strength of evidence of benefits to adult smokers from completely switching to a less harmful product was sufficient to outweigh the risks to youth.'
Judge rules in favor of AHA, declaring HHS's online tracking restrictions unlawful, impacting hospitals' use of web technologies for health information sharing.