The following is from 1000′ One Thousand Feet: Two community organizations –1000 Feet and Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2C– have filed lawsuits in the D.C. Court of Appeals against the District’s Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration (ABCA) over its decisions to grant licenses to […]
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The following story is from Reuters. The United States government has asked a federal judge to dismiss more than two dozen lawsuits filed against it for allegedly contaminating water and soil at hundreds of sites near military bases and facilities
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The following is from Becker’s Hospital Review. Manchester, N.H.-based Catholic Medical Center may make leadership and internal quality changes based on the findings of an internal report prompted by a newspaper’s investigation, New Hampshire Public Radio reported June 7. The hospital commissioned
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With the worst of the Covid nightmare hopefully in the rear-view mirror, there are lingering policy questions that will be addressed for years to come. One important issue surrounds who controls medicine that could be harmful or lifesaving — depending
The following is an excerpt from Reuters. A tangle of high-stakes U.S. patent disputes over Covid-19 vaccines could be tamed by court rulings or grow even more complex next year. In the headlining fight, Moderna sued Pfizer and BioNTech in August, accusing
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The following is an excerpt from Yahoo! News. President Joe Biden’s student-loan forgiveness is officially in the Supreme Court’s book. On Monday, the nation’s highest court announced it will be taking on both lawsuits that challenged Biden’s debt relief on February 28.
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Today we begin with a medicine that has quietly become one of the most widely-prescribed drugs in America, gabapentin. It’s most often given for illnesses it wasn’t FDA-approved to treat. That practice is legal, but some watchdogs say gabapentin’s allegedly
Goodyear has finally agreed to recall more than 173,000 recreational vehicle tires that the U.S. government says can fail, and have killed or injured at least 95 people since 1998. Scientists say death reports are typically understated since many fatalities
