This article by Melody Peterson explains that a Trump Administration, with the agreement of Congress, may expand a trend in which the Food and Drug Administration cares less about certain drugs' effectiveness than it used to. Here's an excerpt concerning the views of someone Trump is considering to lead the FDA: One of Trump’s possible selections […]
Author Archives: Brian Wolfman
This blog is focused on consumer policy, but I figured that some of our readers may be interested in having ready access to the key litigation documents in Washington State's case against the president over the travel ban. So, here is the the State of Washington's complaint, the State of Washington's request for a temporary restraining […]
Read about it in this article by Jim Puzzanghera and Michael Memoli. An excerpt: At a White House meeting with top corporate chief executives, including Jamie Dimon of J.P. Morgan& Co., Trump said Friday that major reductions in financial regulations were coming. *** After the CEO meeting, Trump signed an executive order directing the Treasury secretary to consult with regulators […]
In In re Target Corp Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, No. 15-3909 (Feb. 1, 2017), the Eighth Circuit reversed a district court's approval of a class-action settlement because of its unreasoned class certification, which the court of appeals said "was the product of summary conclusion rather than rigor." More importantly to my mind, the Eighth Circuit […]
Read this note from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau head Richard Cordray to his staff in the wake of the PHH decision.
Read this Washington Post opinion piece by my colleague Alicia Plerhoples.
In this column, using the controversy over sky-high insulin prices as his case in point, David Lazarus explains why he thinks replacing the Affordable Care Act with a free-market health care system is "doomed from the start."
Last week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHSTA) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking on a range of vehicle-to-vehicle communications to be required in all new cars and light trucks. The agency thinks the rule is revolutionary. As the proposed rule's executive summary explains: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is proposing to issue […]
Possibly, yes, according to this study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The study tested the following question: "Do patient outcomes differ between those treated by male and female physicians?" by examining a "nationally representative data of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries." It came to the following conclusion: " Elderly hospitalized patients treated by female internists have lower mortality and […]