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Coverage of the healthcare and mental healthcare industries.
It’s not uncommon for trial judges to reduce multi-million dollar awards if they deem the amounts to be excessive. But it’s unusual for a judge to wipe out a jury verdict, as Judge Maren E. Nelson did in her ruling late Friday.
New Hampshire PBS, in partnership with the Endowment for Health, explores caretakers in aging NH in the upcoming program Call to Care NH premiering Thursday, October 26 at 8:30 pm.
The stakes are high. Off-label promotion has long been considered a serious white-collar crime. The FDA has fined drug companies billions of dollars for off-label violations.
Shea-Porter: Stopping these payments won’t just hurt the lower-income people whose out-of-pocket costs are defrayed by CSRs, it will also hurt every one of the millions of Americans who buy their own coverage.
Concord, NH – Customers on public water in Merrimack and Bedford, NH, have been exposed to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) at higher levels than the general U.S. population but at lower levels than in other exposed communities, according to a new report issued by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
A state lawmaker says Eversource Energy shouldn’t be allowed to buy Aquarion Water because Eversource was one of the polluters of the Coakley Superfund Site on the Seacoast years ago and is liable for about 2 percent of the cleanup.
A Los Angeles jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay damages of $417 million to a 62-year-old woman who blamed her ovarian cancer on years of using the company’s baby powder for feminine hygiene.
State Epidemiologist Dr. Benjamin Chan. “It is an uncommon infection to be found, but similar to WNV and EEE, it also has the potential to cause serious health complications, including central nervous system infection. Because of the risk for various infections from mosquitoes, we want to remind people to take steps to avoid mosquito bites and remove areas of standing water around their homes where mosquitoes might breed and reproduce.”
Data provided by the Attorney General’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner show a slight decrease in the number of drug overdose deaths projected for this year.