Covid backlash hobbles public health and future pandemic response
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Fruity Pebbles and Lucky Charms threaten to block “healthy” food labelling guidelines in court
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Ninety-four women allege a Utah doctor sexually assaulted them. Here’s why a judge threw out their case.
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Steak dinners, sales reps and risky procedures: Inside the big business of clogged arteries
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UnitedHealthcare tried to deny coverage to a chronically ill patient. He fought back, exposing the insurer’s inner workings.
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Parents refuse use of vaccinated blood in life-saving surgery on baby
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This man is allowed to starve himself to death, but not to eat some biscuits
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Swedish court has given disgraced Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini a suspended sentence for causing bodily harm during an experimental stem-cell windpipe transplant
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Sacklers raise their offer to settle opioid lawsuits by more than $1 billion
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What to know about the battle over Fox Valley health care workers now playing out in court
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Two disbarred lawyers sued a Texas doctor who performed an abortion. Flustered ‘pro-lifers’ are backpedaling
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A doctor who defied Texas' abortion law is sued, launching a legality test of the ban
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The Sacklers, who made billions from OxyContin, win immunity from opioid lawsuits
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Japanese sex business operator sues state over virus cash handout snub
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US states seek $2.2 trillion from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma: filings
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Hospitals in the US sued to keep prices secret. They lost
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Ontario to explore criminal charges against five long-term care homes in scathing military report, says Premier Doug Ford
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Few US prisoners have been released since beginning of the pandemic: Nearly 3/4s of those held at jails are pretrial--meaning thousands of legally innocent individuals face a potential death sentence
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Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down governor’s extension of stay-at-home order
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A Perth man has become the first person in Australia to be jailed for breaching emergency coronavirus laws after he repeatedly snuck out of his hotel room while he was supposed to be in quarantine
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Two nurses denied jobs as midwives in Sweden because of their refusal to perform abortions have lost their legal action against Sweden at the ECHR
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A spate of new class-action lawsuits threaten the CBD industry. Will they force Washington to act?
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The abortion war goes local as ACLU lawsuit seeks to thwart town’s ban
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University of Virginia health system sues thousands of patients, seizing paychecks and putting liens on homes
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Sacklers would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma under settlement proposal
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The child abuse contrarian: A renowned scientist turned expert witness relies on his own controversial theory to help alleged abusers avoid prison
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'This case will set a precedent': First major opioid trial to begin in Oklahoma
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OxyContin maker explored expansion into “attractive” anti-addiction market
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Damning court docs show just how far Sacklers went to push OxyContin
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Sackler family members face mass litigation and criminal investigations over opioids crisis
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Sackler family members face mass litigation, criminal investigations over opioids crisis
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Indigenous women kept from seeing their newborn babies until agreeing to sterilization, says lawyer
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Aetna ordered to pay $25.5 million after denying coverage to woman who died of cancer
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Abortion laws: High Court prepares to hear challenge to picketing ban
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The $289 million verdict against Monsanto is scientifically outrageous
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Jury rules Monsanto liable in weed killer case - ordered to pay $250,000,000 for causing cancer
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Monsanto ordered to pay $289 million in world's first Roundup cancer trial
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Judge orders Health Canada to release 'confidential' pharmaceutical data
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Toowoomba woman wins court bid to use her dead boyfriend's sperm to have a baby
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