Legal & Regulatory Issues

An unknown person opened fire on Kaiser Permanente's Roseville (Calif.) hospital, striking the building, CBS Sacramento reported April 12.

Ndubuisi Joseph Okafor, MD, a physician based in Washington, D.C., has been arrested and charged with 16 counts of illegal distribution of opioids.

Nearly 700 companies are receiving a warning from the Federal Trade Commission about the civil penalties they face for advertisements containing claims about products that cannot be backed up with reliable evidence. 

In the days since the Texas federal court ruling that suspended the FDA's approval of mifepristone — one of two pills used to induce abortion medically — several medical associations reacted to the unprecedented case.

An appeals court partially overturned a Texas federal judge's preliminary injunction on April 12 by allowing the abortion pill mifepristone to remain on the market, but it cannot be mail ordered. On April 13, the Justice Department appealed this to the…

A former nurse has been sentenced to three years in prison for tampering with vials of injectable pain medications while working in the emergency department at Franciscan Health Crawfordsville, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Indiana said…

Thibodaux (La.) Regional Medical Center has been ordered to halt operations in nearby Houma amid an ongoing lawsuit between it and Houma-based Terrebonne General Health System, according to an April 12 report in Houmatoday.

Birmingham, Ala.-based UAB Medicine worked its nurses more than 40 hours per week without pay, a recent lawsuit alleges. 

Some Democratic and Republican lawmakers said the FDA should ignore the Texas ruling that looks to rescind the agency's approval of an abortion pill, The Hill reported April 11. 

A urologist who practiced at prominent New York City hospitals was arrested April 11 on allegations of yearslong sexual abuse of patients.