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Juul Secures Cash Infusion To Avoid Bankruptcy

Categories: Announcements

Juul Labs Inc. has secured a cash infusion from some of its early investors to avoid bankruptcy and plans to lay off roughly one-third of its global workforce, according to…

FDA Issues Order To Authorize Naloxone Sale

Categories: FDA Related

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a notice that could help increase access to opioid overdose-reversing naloxone drug products without a prescription, paving the way…

Study Finds Vaping Results In Long-term Addiction

Categories: General

Although the makers of JUUL and other popular e-cigarettes have marketed their products as safer than smoking tobacco cigarettes, a new study suggests that vaping actually…

Judge To Meet Hernia Mesh MDL's Lawyers For 2023 Trial

Categories: General

The United States District Judge presiding over all federal hernia mesh lawsuits involving Bard products will meet with lawyers involved in the litigation next week as…

NY Secures $116M From Walmart’s $3.1B Opioid Settlement

Categories: Settlements

New York will get $116 million from Walmart's $3.1 billion nationwide opioid settlement to settle allegations that it played a role in the nation's opioid crisis.

The…

CDC’s New Opioid Guidelines Rejected By Florida

Categories: General

The Florida Department of Health has rejected the new CDC guidelines for opioid prescribing, citing the ongoing opioid crisis and the recent fentanyl explosion.

The CDC updated…

FDA Reports 260 Deaths Linked To Recalled CPAP Machines

Categories: FDA Related

According to federal regulators, at least 260 deaths have been linked to recalled Philips CPAP sleep apnea machines,…

Additional $130M For Massachusetts Over Opioid Crisis

Categories: Settlements

As part of a multistate settlement with two pharmaceutical companies over their alleged role in the opioid crisis, Massachusetts will receive $130 million.

Teva and Allergan…

Bellwether Trial Of Hernia Mesh MDL Postponed Until May 2023

Categories: Bellwether News

The United States District Judge presiding over all Bard hernia mesh lawsuits pending in the MDL (multidistrict litigation) has postponed the next bellwether trial until May…