Woods Hill Table, the farm-to-table restaurant on Commonwealth Avenue in West Concord, Massachusetts, closed on September 16, 2026 while town and state health officials investigate a cluster of Salmonella infections. As of September 17, ten people had been reported ill, both
Today’s question comes from Queensland and raises the issue of student access to ‘The Viewer’. My correspondent says they are advised that students:
… should not access patient information [on the Viewer] unless there is clear lawful authority to do so.
On September 8, the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) issued Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2026-03, outlining how it will enforce the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act’s (MHPAEA) nonquantitative treatment limitation (NQTL) requirements going forward.
The Indiana Department of Health (“IDOH”) has issued a second public comment notice regarding its proposed amendments to Indiana’s Residential Care Facility (“RCF”) regulations. The proposal, first published earlier this year, would significantly expand resident rights, incorporate federal Home and
Someone asked me today what is going on with Cyclospora. Here is where things are as of a few moments ago.
CDC updated its Cyclospora case-data page on September 15, 2026, and said it was the last weekly one. It
HealthCareInfoSecurity.com reported that “CVS Health and digital advertising firm Criteo have agreed to pay $20.5 million to settle claims that the retail pharmacy giant unlawfully disclosed personal and health information of patients to Criteo through web tracking technology embedded on
Physicians spend years developing clinical expertise and building professional reputations, but the legal and financial dimensions of medical practice receive far less systematic attention in most medical training programs than they deserve. Insurance is one of the areas where this
A mere two weeks ago, we praised a California federal court for dismissing preempted claims against a prescription drug manufacturer and not giving the plaintiff a third chance to plead a non-preempted claim. We noted that allowing three strikes seems
HRSA is testing a change that could require Tribal health clinics to pay more upfront for certain prescription drugs, then claim their 340B discount afterward. This is the agency’s second attempt, since a federal district court vacated HRSA’s earlier pilot
