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A.M. Vitals: Federal Prosecutors Want $1 Billion From Johnson & Johnson
Settlement Terms?: Federal prosecutors want Johnson & Johnson to pay about $1 billion to settle a years-long investigation of whether the company marketed the antipsychotic Risperdal for unapproved uses, the WSJ reports, citing people familiar with the matter. Settlement talks could break down, and that figure isn’t set in stone, the paper says. J&J said only that discussions were ongoing,...
Signs of Success For AIDS Drugs as Prevention Tools
As we noted a few years ago, the same antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV infection and AIDS are also being eyed as a way to prevent the spread of the disease.
That notion is shored up by new research showing that treating HIV-infected people with the drugs dramatically reduces the odds they’ll transmit the virus to a sexual partner, at least if that partner is of the opposite gender. (Couples...
Reports Show Strain of Health Costs
If you need any more evidence that the growth in health-care costs is unsustainable, take a look at two reports out this week.
Today, the Medicare trustees issued their annual assessment of the government insurance program’s fiscal health. The prognosis: the trust fund (covering hospital stays) will be exhausted in 2024, as the WSJ reports. That’s five years earlier than they predicted last year;...
How Resolved Malpractice Claims Might Help Reduce Misdiagnosis in the E.R.
Given the growing cost of malpractice suits from missed or delayed diagnoses in the emergency department, hospitals and their liability insurers are mining resolved claims for lessons on how to reduce such errors, today
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Consumer Reports Ranks Diet Plans; Jenny Craig Takes the Crown
Consumer Reports crunched the numbers on a whole bunch of diet plans so you don’t have to.
The magazine’s latest wrap-up of commercial diet programs puts Jenny Craig (a unit of Nestl
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