Five states and Washington, D.C., have received less than 10% of the critical personal protective equipment they requested from the federal government, according to records released Thursday by the House Oversight Committee.
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It was late when engineer Joe Tavi’s boss called with an odd question: Could their company, which makes fuel cells, learn how to fix a ventilator?
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The national stockpile of personal protective equipment is nearly depleted, President Donald Trump said at the White House’s Covid-19 task force briefing Wednesday.
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European nations have delivered medical equipment to Iran in the first transaction under the Instex mechanism set up to bypass U.S. sanctions on Tehran, the German foreign ministry said Tuesday.
Read moreClaiming he was negligently overprescribed with Ketamine for back pain, a minister sued an Oregon hospital and compounding pharmacies in Multnomah County Court; he says he has no memory of trying to “sexually attack” his wife, for which he was arrested and charged.
Read moreSharing a sliver of good news Wednesday from ground zero of the U.S. Covid-19 epidemic, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo touted evidence that the embrace of social distancing could be slowing transmission rates.
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Malaysia’s medical glove factories, which make most of the world’s critical hand protection, are operating at half capacity when they’re most needed, The Associated Press has learned.
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Two weeks after temporarily halting his deportation to Guatemala, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that a 5-year-old boy can see a pediatric neurologist to determine whether he needs an emergency medical procedure.
Read moreThree people sued Torax Medical and Ethicon in separate federal complaints, claiming they made a defective titanium implant to relieve gastroesophageal reflux that was recalled, and had to be removed.Three people sued Torax Medical and Ethicon in separate federal complaints, claiming they made a defective titanium implant to relieve gastroesophageal reflux that was recalled, and had to be removed.
Read moreTwo women sued two doctors and Avanir Pharmaceuticals, claiming the doctors injured them by prescribing Avanir’s Nuedexta, used only to treat pseudobulbular effect, which gives people fits of laughter or crying, though they do not have the disease, and the doctors were taking benefits from Avanir when they did it, in Cuyahoga County Court.
Read moreThe Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social sued Zimmer Biomet Holdings in federal court, claiming it “used bribery as an integral part of its worldwide marketing strategy” for its medical devices.
Read moreThe Department of Health and Human Services can enforce a new national policy governing the allocation of donated livers to transplant patients while a lawsuit challenging the policy is pending in federal court, a federal court judge in Georgia ruled Thursday.
Read moreIn a negligence case against C.R. Bard for its pelvic mesh product, a federal judge has asked the Third Circuit to resolve “whether Pennsylvania recognizes a strict liability claim for a manufacturing defect of a prescription medical device.”
Read moreA class of horse buyers claims several Kentucky veterinarians altered x-rays and then destroyed the medical records to conceal the true condition of horses sold at auction at the world-renowned Keeneland Racecourse.
Read moreJapan’s Supreme Court has upheld a law that effectively requires transgender people to be sterilized before they can have their gender changed on official documents.
Read moreJohnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries agreed to pay $120 million to settle multistate claims they misrepresented the safety, effectiveness and longevity of its hip implant devices, the California attorney general announced Tuesday.
Read moreThe SEC brought a federal complaint Wednesday alleging tha damaging information about the breast-implant company, Sientra, was concealed ahead of a $61 million IPO.
Read moreIn a ruling filed Tuesday, a federal judge in Wisconsin ordered that the state and its insurers must cover transition procedures for transgender state employees.
Read moreA mall security guard found vindication at Europe’s highest court on Wednesday in her bid for acknowledgement of the special risks she would face if made to work night shifts while breastfeeding.
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