Latest Drugs Headlines
All the headlines from our Drugs Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Neb. County Implements Special Drunken-driving Court
Nov 27 2007 // Scotts Bluff County, Neb. has been approved for a pilot program for a drunken-driving court. The county already offers an adult drug court, a juvenile drug court and a family drug court. Crystal Newton, problem-solving...
Federal Panel Asks Miss. Court to Clarify Medical Malpractice Limits
Nov 19 2007 // A federal appeals panel is asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to clarify when the clock starts ticking on the filing of certain medical malpractice claims. Specifically, a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Study Targets Prescription Savings in Workers’ Comp for Chronically Injured
Nov 7 2007 // Chronically injured workers – those who remain injured for four years or more – represent only 17 percent of all injured workers, but account for 45 percent of all workers’ compensation prescriptions, and...
Mo. Lawsuit Alleges Walgreen’s Error Caused Miscarriage
Oct 23 2007 // When Chanda Givens began feeling sick and throwing up about a month into her pregnancy, she wrote it off as morning sickness. It was only after the suburban St. Louis woman miscarried a month later that she learned the...
Nevada Jury Awards Millions in Wyeth Drug Trial
Oct 15 2007 // A Nevada jury levied a $35 million judgment against pharmaceutical giant Wyeth in a lawsuit filed by three Nevada women who claimed the company’s hormone replacement drugs caused their breast cancer. Initially, the...
Merck Says First Fla. Jury Finds Vioxx Not Liable for Heart Attack
Oct 9 2007 // Drug maker Merck & Co. Inc. said Friday the jury in a Florida liability case involving its painkiller Vioxx decided in the company’s favor. The company said the jury found it was not liable for plaintiff Refik...
Health premiums rise 6.1%; average family coverage costs $12,000
Sep 24 2007 // Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose an average of 6.1 percent in 2007, less than the 7.7 percent increase reported last year but still higher than the increase in workers’ wages (3.7 percent) or the...
Health premiums rise 6.1%; average family coverage costs $12,000
Sep 24 2007 // Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose an average of 6.1 percent in 2007, less than the 7.7 percent increase reported last year but still higher than the increase in workers’ wages (3.7 percent) or the...
N.Y. City, State Join Suit Over Vioxx
Sep 19 2007 // New York State and City have sued Merck & Co. Inc., joining thousands of others who say the drug maker cheated government insurance programs by hiding the dangers of heart problems associated with its pain medication...
Health Premiums Rise 6.1%; Average Family Coverage Costs $12,000
Sep 12 2007 // Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose an average of 6.1 percent in 2007, less than the 7.7 percent increase reported last year but still higher than the increase in workers’ wages (3.7 percent) or the...
Vioxx Federal Judge Sees 2008 Focus on Stroke Cases
Jul 30 2007 // Next year’s federal Vioxx trials may focus on people who had strokes after taking the once popular painkiller, the judge assigned to handle pretrial matters in all 8,575 federal lawsuits said last Friday. “We...
Okla. Regulator’s Concerns Impacts Federal Medicare Legislation
Jul 30 2007 // Two months ago, Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland was in Washington expressing dismay to a Senate panel that government policies prevented her from protecting elderly Oklahoma consumers from unscrupulous Medicare...
INHALANTS NOT INCLUDED UNDER DRUNK DRIVING LAW, N.Y. HIGH COURT RULES
Jul 23 2007 // A motorist accused of “huffing” stimulants from an aerosol can before getting into a deadly wreck cannot be charged with driving while intoxicated, New York’s highest court ruled recently. The Legislature...
Inhalants not included under drunk driving law, N.Y. high court rules
Jul 23 2007 // A motorist accused of “huffing” stimulants from an aerosol can before getting into a deadly wreck cannot be charged with driving while intoxicated, New York’s highest court ruled recently. The Legislature...
News Currents
Jul 23 2007 // The co-worker and the shop foreman testified that McIntosh didn’t appear to be impaired by marijuana use before the accident. Tenn. court: marijuana not a factor in worker’s injury The Tennessee Supreme Court...
U.S. Reports 1 in 12 Employees Using Illegal Drugs
Jul 17 2007 // One in 12 full-time workers in the United States acknowledges having used illegal drugs in the past month, the U.S. government reports. Most of those who report using illicit drugs are employed full-time, with the highest...
Tenn. Supreme Court Rules Marijuana Not a Factor in Worker’s Injury
Jul 9 2007 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a worker whose hand was crushed by machinery at his workplace was not to blame for the accident despite his admitted marijuana use off the job. Billy McIntosh was injured in 2004...
N.Y. Court Rules Drunk Driving Does Not Include Using Inhalants with Alcohol
Jun 29 2007 // A motorist accused of “huffing” stimulants from an aerosol can before getting into a deadly wreck cannot be charged with driving while intoxicated, New York’s highest court ruled Wednesday. The...
N.J. Judge Orders Merck to Pay $4 Million in Vioxx Case Legal Fees
Jun 20 2007 // Lawyers who helped a heart attack victim win a $13.5 million jury verdict in a Vioxx liability case should be paid about $4 million in legal fees by Merck & Co., a New Jersey judge has ruled. Merck, which made the...
Key employer advantages to Health Savings Accounts
Jun 18 2007 // After being available for four years, Health Savings Accounts (HSA) combined with a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) are finally catching on. A recent nationwide study indicated that 26 percent of U.S. companies with 500...
