As of November 2020, 48 states and the District of Columbia have legalized either the recreational or medical use of cannabis on the local level. Under federal law, cannabis remains a Schedule I controlled substance, and illegal to use, buy, sell, or possess. The restrictive Schedule I status also creates a significant barrier to conducting…
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Fallout continues from last week’s failure of computer and phone systems at two West Palm Beach hospitals. WPTV NewsChannel 5 spent much of Monday trying to contact the spokeswoman for Tenet Health, the owner of Good Samaritan and St. Mary’s medical centers, but has received no answers. WPTV has also learned that the federal Joint…
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Two cargo planes packed with tons of medical equipment have already been flown from Chicago, USA, to Ukraine where members helped to unload the supplies. by Arnold R. Grahl Rotary members in North America, Argentina, and Europe are collaborating with a U.S.-based association of Ukrainian health care workers and using their connections to collect and…
Kathleen Daley is a partner at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner. [Photo courtesy of Finnegan] There’s “significantly more” to it than a good idea for an SaMD algorithm. Kathleen Daley, Angeline Premraj and Jason Zhang, Finnegan Technology continues to change the practice of healthcare, and one area where this has become evident is the…
By STEVE SWOGETINSKY Philadelphia will opt out of medical marijuana for now following the same decision as the Board of Supervisors a day earlier last week. While the majority of the board wasn’t totally against medical marijuana being manufactured or sold in the city, aldermen voted 3-2 last Tuesday night to take a wait-and-see position.…
Jose Luis Pelaez Inc | DigitalVision | Getty Images Medical debt has a big bull’s-eye on its back. In addition to the March announcement by the three big credit-reporting firms that they will limit when such debt ends up on credit reports, the White House on Monday outlined steps intended to further prevent past medical…
It’s been 1,619 days since Gov. Phil Murphy took office promising legal weed in the Garden State and we may be just weeks away from the start of sales. Thirteen medical marijuana dispensaries will soon be able to sell marijuana to any adult 21 years and older after the state’s Cannabis Regulatory Commission voted Monday…
This Monday, Aug. 6, 2012 file photo shows the Exeter Hospital in Exeter, N.H. David Kwiatkowski, a former traveling medical technician and former worker at the New Hampshire hospital, is currently serving a 39 year sentence in prison for stealing painkillers and replacing them with saline-filled syringes tainted with his hepatitis C positive blood, infecting…
Medical devices are one major weak point in health care cybersecurity, and both Congress and the Food and Drug Administration took steps towards closing that gap this week —Congress with a proposed bill and the FDA with new draft guidelines for device makers on how they should build devices that are less likely to be…