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02/18/2010
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06/17/2009
Nurses Cleared to Offer Expert Medical Opinions
By Leo Strupsczewski, The Legal Intelligencer
The state Supreme Court has overturned its ban on allowing registered nurses to offer medical opinions when testifying as expert witnesses.
06/16/2009
Synthes, Medical Device Maker, Accused of Improper Marketing
By Barry Beier, The New York Times
A medical device maker, Synthes Inc., and four of its executives were indicted Tuesday on federal charges that they improperly promoted a bone filler for purposes not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, including encouraging its use in what prosecutors called "unauthorized" human trials.
06/16/2009
F.D.A. Warns Against Use of Popular Cold Remedy
By Gardiner Harris
Federal drug regulators warned consumers to stop using Zicam, a popular homeopathic cold remedy, because it could damage or destroy their sense of smell.
05/28/2009
Growing Trend of Contracting with Family to Provide Long-Term Care for Elderly
By Jan Dennis, Senior Journal
New contracts adding legal twist to family health care, law professor finds.
05/22/2009
Making a Case for Disaster Recovery
By Donna Paulson, Law.com
Today's CIOs and IT professionals face numerous challenges, tasked with directives relating to business productivity, compliance issues, service-level agreements and more. In the legal industry especially, our priority is to identify and implement effective technologies that align with business requirements. The ability to recover data in the wake of a disaster and continue to serve our clients is a top priority at Sheppard Mullin. The 550-attorney firm has eight of its eleven offices in earthquake and fire prone California (with additional offices in New York, Washington, D.C., and Shanghai). As a result, disaster recovery was one of the most important IT projects facing the firm's IT department in 2008. Sheppard Mullin took steps to implement a successful disaster recovery solution to ensure that the firm and its clients (many of whom are among the Fortune 100) would not experience business or service disruption.
05/05/2009
Mental health courts increase despite debate
By Dena Potter, Associated Press
NORFOLK, Va. – When the judge calls her name the lady pops up, slipping on her long, red jacket and floppy hat as she approaches the bench.
05/04/2009
Hackers Break Into Virginia Health Professions Database, Demand Ransom
By Brian Krebs, The Washington Post
Hackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse. They deleted records on more than 8 million patients and replaced the site's homepage with a ransom note demanding $10 million for the return of the records, according to a posting on Wikileaks.org, an online clearinghouse for leaked documents.
04/30/2009
Lawyer in TB scare sues CDC
By Bill Rankin, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A faulty diagnosis led the agency to single him out as a public health risk.
04/28/2009
Georgia settles with drug company for $6M
By Bill Rankin, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Other states seek more with lawsuits over potential side effects of Zyprexa.
04/27/2009
For law graduates, a public-service detour on road to success
By Rich Barlow, The Boston Globe
With his degree from Harvard Law School due in June, Juan Valdivieso makes an attractive prospective hire, and last summer, he scooped up a postgraduation job offer from the white-shoe firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in his native Washington, D.C.
04/17/2009
Pennsylvania Nurses Call For Guaranteed Healthcare Law For All State Residents
Medical News TODAY
Registered nurses from throughout the state will be joined by physicians, patients, and healthcare activists at a hearing this Friday before the House Democratic caucus in support of a landmark single-payer healthcare bill. The bill, House Bill 1660, the "Family and Business Healthcare Security Act of 2009," comes on the heels of a resolution passed by the Philadelphia City Council calling for both state and federal lawmakers to establish a single-payer health system.
03/24/2009
New law allows NPs to treat without supervision
By Kristi Eaton, Saipan Tribune
Gov. Benigno Fitial signed into law yesterday a bill allowing nurse practitioners to prescribe medications and treat conditions within their scope of practice without doctor supervision.
03/24/2009
Book Dealers Told to Get The Lead Out
By Michael Birnbaum, The Washington Post
Libraries Resist Ban on Potentially Toxic Books.
03/22/2009
Bill would allow cameras in patient rooms
By Marty Roney, Montgomery Advertiser
Old people in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities are being neglected and abused, say advocates of a bill in the Alabama Legislature that would let families request surveillance cameras in their loved ones' room.
03/22/2009
Gap in Ky. law leads to errors at bedside of dying patients
By Valarie Honeycutt Spears, Lexington Herald-Leader
On Christmas Eve last year, the staff at Woodland Oaks Healthcare Center in Ashland failed to perform CPR on a dying resident, a state citation alleges, even though the resident had signed an order asking for resuscitation.
01/13/2009
Mo. court says home health law discriminates
The Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Supreme Court says a state home health care law discriminates against people with mental disabilities.
08/07/2008
TAANA's Amicus Brief Supporting a Nurse's Non-Negotiable Duty to Advocate
Amicus Brief
TAANA member, Diane Warlick, recently wrote a compelling Amicus Brief on behalf of TAANA in the case of Ellen Hughes Finnerty v. Board of Registered Nurses, Court of Appeals for the State of California, Cause No. B 200659. Another TAANA member, Phyllis Gallagher, raised awareness of the situation shortly after the entry of the California Board of Nursing ruling against her client.
